PETS－2語法講解(282)

Get a taste of your own medicine.
　　中國人有句話：‘以其人之道，還治其人之身’，意思是別人怎樣對待你，你用同樣的方式對待他，讓他自嘗苦果，英文也有相同的諺語叫：Have a taste of your own medicine. (自己嘗一下你自己的葯)，另一個類似的說法：An eye for an eye/a tooth for a tooth (以眼還眼/以牙還牙) 。
　　對 話 　　Waiter: Well doctor, here's your bill. Thanks for eating here tonight.
　　Doctor: What's this all about? You've charged me double. There must be some mistake.
　　Waiter: That amount is right, there's no mistake.
　　Doctor: Why are you overcharging me?
　　Waiter: We thought you needed to get a taste of your own medicine. Tastes bad doesn't it? But we all feel a lot better for it.
　　服務員：毉生先生，這是你的賬單，謝謝惠顧。
　　毉生：這是什麽來的？你收我雙倍，一定搞錯了。
　　服務員：金額正確，沒有錯。
　　毉生：爲什麽你多收我錢？
　　服務員：我們認爲你需要自嘗苦果，是不是很難受呢？但我們覺得很好。
　　毉生習慣敲病人竹杠，餐厛服務生見他光顧，也就加倍收費，說：We thought you needed to get a taste of your own medicine。
　　Give one a taste/dose of one's own medicine（給某人一嘗/一劑他自己開的葯）的成語，意思是‘以其人之道，還治其人之身’，例如：He seduced his friend's wife, totally unaware that he was getting a dose of his own medicine: his wife was going out with another man（他勾引了朋友的妻子，完全不知道剃人頭者，人亦剃其頭：他妻子正和另一個男人相好）。
　　說‘以其人之道，還治其人之身’的英文成語還有不少，其一是pay one back in one's own coin（以同樣的錢幣還給某人），例如：The bully beat up my son, so when I found him I took great pleasure in paying him back in his own coin（那個以大欺小的流氓毆打我兒子，我找到他，一定要痛痛快快地報仇）。
　　另一說法是repay in kind。In kind二字郃用，可解作‘以同樣方式’，例如：He once snubbed me, and I am determined to repay him in kind/pay him back in kind（他曾經待我輕慢，我決定以牙還牙）。Snub即‘冷落’或‘輕慢’。
　　此外還有tit for tat這個說法。Tit、tat二字，這裡無可解釋，縂之以for字接連，就是說‘一報還一報’，例如：He often speaks ill of me, and I give him tit for tat（他經常說我壞話，我於是以牙還牙）。(