turn the tables

turn the tables

美 　英

• v.扭转形势；扭转局面
• 网络扭转局势；转败为胜；反败为胜

英汉解释

v.	1. 扭转形势; 扭转局面

英英解释

v.	1. to succeed in gaining an advantage over someone who until now had an advantage over you

例句

In other words, "we don't want the company that we have under our patent thumb to be able to turn the tables" .

换句话说，“我们不希望依靠我们专利的这些公司能够扭转劣势”。

It is not rare to see Federer be completely out of the point, then suddenly turn the tables at whim and hit a winner.

经常会发生这样的情况，你看着觉得这一分他已经彻底没戏了，突然他就反戈一击，一个致胜球让你目瞪口呆。

How the hell we wind up like this? Why weren't we able to see the signs that we missed and try to turn the tables?

我们到底怎麽会这样结束？为何我们没有能够看到我们所遗漏的徵兆而试著扭转劣势呢？。

Now, a debt-free Oz might even be able to turn the tables to rebuild its portfolio.

如今，一个没有债务负担的Oz甚至也许能扭转局面，重新建立自己的资产组合。

Even so, with your razor sharp mind and get up and go, if this did happen, you'll turn the tables to your favor soon.

即便如此，你的头脑和剡起床去，如果这确实发生，您可以把您的表赞成很快。

'Now that you besought me heart to heart I'll try my best to aid you to turn the tables. ' He boasts his capacity.

‘既然你诚心诚意求我，那我就尽力帮你扭转颓势。’他夸下海口。

Steve's been ignoring you for too long, it's time to turn the tables on him.

史蒂夫已经有太长的时间忽视了你，是该给他有所反击的时候了。

So experts are proposing to turn the tables on this hungry predator.

所以，专家们提议对这种贪心的食肉动物发动反攻。

Often, this could turn the tables as the bully might not be prepared with an answer.

此举通常便足以反败为胜，因为霸王对这个问题通常都会无以应对。

Now let's turn the tables: Who are the leading ladies of the same age, with the same kind of currency, the same box office draw?

现在我们摊开了说：有哪个领先的女性在同样的年龄、有同种境况和同一的票房吸引力？

His whole mind was concentrated on one thing only- how to turn the tables on the enemy.

他的整个脑子都集中考虑一个问题，如何扭转局势，使之对敌人不利。

I'll turn the tables on you one day and punish you for all the wrongs you've done to my family.

总有一天我会报复你的，你对我家干了那么多坏事，我会惩罚你的。

Inevitably, they turn the tables and ask me about my own relationship status.

不可避免地，他们也会反过来问我的感情状况。

Disregarding the shock on my face, he added that he could turn the tables on me too.

他毫不在意我脸上的错愕，又说可以使我陷入被动的局面。

Perhaps the Fed chairman should turn the tables on members of Congress this week and ask what they are going to do about it.

贝南克或许应该在这个星期反过来问国会议员，他们自己打算怎么办。

We still have a chance to turn the tables on them at the last minute.

我们仍然有机会在最后关头扭转局势。

Others turn the tables and train supervisors in languages most often spoken by workers in their industry.

有些则反过来，让管理人员接受本行业中工人最常用语言的培训。

They must use all their future-tech know-how to turn the tables on the Shredder or the city will go permanently haywire!

他们必须利用其所有未来高技术知道如何打开表的碎纸机或城市将永久失控！

Well, now it's your chance to turn the tables, picnic and otherwise, on these summertime pests.

不过现在，到了你翻开桌子、野餐布或者其他的什么，主动地去寻找这些暑季小害虫的时候了。

That they should turn the tables with such cruelty compounded the shock.

他们希望凭借残酷的颠覆来扭转这种局面。

Hopefully we can turn the tables in the next race and fight for a win again.

希望在下场比赛后我们能重新取得积分榜上的领先并再次获得胜利。

You are a capable man. I believe you have the power to turn the tables.

你是个有能力的人，我相信你有能力扭转局面，转败为胜。

Why not turn the tables and show what is latent and myth-generating in the seemingly trivial or materialist?

为什么不扭转这种局面呢？说明是什么潜藏在看似琐碎或唯物主义的表象下、制造着神话。

We would fail unless we could turn the tables this time.

除非我们这回能扭转局势否则我们就失败了。

Can we turn the tables on them?

我们能扭转局势使之对他们不利吗？

If we score one more point then we will be ahead and we can turn the tables on the other team .

如果我们再多得一分，那麽我们就可以领先了，而且我们可以扭转另一队的情势。

These and other astronomical discoveries turn the tables on our notions of the familiar and unfamiliar. Most of the galaxy is dark matter;

风水轮流转，这些天文发现让我们知道，我们一直认为所熟悉的其实并不是真的如我们所想。

The boys turn the tables on John when they took his school away and scored him When they took his squirt gun away and squirted him

约翰打算用喷水枪喷那些孩子，没想到事与愿违，他们抢了他的枪滋了他一身水