战胜，打败：通过聪明才智来战胜或欺骗某人。
克制不住，无法抵挡：常用于比喻，表示无法抵挡某种冲动或欲望。
... get over 克服困难,解决问题,从(病,失望.震惊)中恢复过来 get the better of 占上风,胜过 get through 接通电话;完成;通过(如考试);花光金钱等,克服困难,解决问题 ...
...，毁灭 解决，算出；弄懂，制定出 引起，激起；逐渐上升 从事于，努力做 开始，着手 逃避，改掉 get the better of 占上风，胜过 give oneself away 泄露，露马脚 give oneself up 自首，投降，投案 give way to 给……
... get over 战胜(艰苦等) get the better of 占上风；战胜；克制 get through 达到；完成；接通电话 ...
She didn't allow her emotions to get the better of her.
她没有让情绪打败自己。
No one can get the better of her in an argument.
辩论起来没人能辩过她。
Because Mary was the stronger of the two she was beginning to get the better of Colin.
因为玛丽是这两个人中更为厉害的一个，她开始胜过科林了。
To get a better sense of the modern name game, we stopped some families out on the National Mall here in Washington,D.C.
VOA : special.2009.07.06
Plato wrote the dialogues as a kind of learning device, as a tool to help the reader get better at doing philosophy.
柏拉图写下这些对话录,是为了将其作为一种助学方法,作为一种帮助读者,更好的掌握哲学的工具
死亡课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
I'm much better having an exception get handled at the time of input than to let that prop -- that value rather propagate through a whole bunch of code until eventually it hits an error 17 calls later, and you have no clue where it came from.
不是我期望的格式,这时我最好有一个异常处理,而不是让其传下去,这个值传到代码的整个分支,最终会导致一个错误17调用的发生，并且你不知道这个错误是哪里来的。
计算机科学及编程导论课程节选 : 麻省理工公开课
We will try to get to the heart of the matter to better understand the most important things about words and their stories.
VOA : special.2010.07.11
She wanted to get a better picture of the city below.
VOA : special.2009.05.10
Rick is a loner who won't let his idealism get the better of his pragmatism.
CNN: The lessons of 'Casablanca' still apply, as time goes by
First, women in charge of such a crucial negotiation would not let testosterone get the better of them.
Federer made a slow start but recovered to get the better of Spain's Juan Carlos Ferrero 6-3 6-4.