Play with fire 玩火自焚

2023-03-21 15:32:41  每日学英语
play “玩”,fire “火”,它可以引申为“do something that could be dangerous ”。做一些很危险或者会引起很危险的事情。

【例句】
Everyone knows that playing with fire can burn you or cause damage to others. So to play with fire means to do something that could hurt you or another person.
每个人都知道玩火会烧到你或对他人造成伤害。所以玩火意味着做一些可能伤害你或他人的事情。

Don’t walk out onto that old bridge, you’re playing with fire because it looks like it could fall at any time.
别走到那座旧桥上,你在玩火自焚,因为它看起来随时都可能掉下来。

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