Don't make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you.这个词语在特定语言环境下很容易使人误译，那么你觉得Don't make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you.应该怎么翻译呢?Don't make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you.的原意又是什么呢?

Don't make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you.

［例句］　Don't make yourself a mouse , or the cat will eat you .

［误译］　不要把自己变得胆小如鼠 ，否则会被猫吃掉 。

［原意］　不要在别人面前表现出软弱 ，否则会受欺侮 。

［说明］　本例是一句英文谚语，意为“不要在别人面前表现出软弱，否则会受欺侮”。

dose one with his own physic

见give one the dose of his own medicine

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