fight fire with fire

基本解释

My uncle lost out to his competitors because he wasn't willing to fight fire with fire.
我叔叔輸給了競爭對手，因爲他不願意以毒攻毒。
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But if my opponent wants to play dirty and talk about my personal life, I have no choice but to fight fire with fire and talk about some personal things we've found out about him.
但是，要是我的對手要耍下流手段，談論有關我私生活的事，那我就別無選擇，衹好以其人之道還治其人之身了，把我們發現有關他私生活的事也公佈於衆。
Our goal here is to fight fire with fire so to speak, and come back at the negatives with positives, almost like reprogramming a computer.
這麽說吧，我們的目標是“以火攻火”，用積極的事物曏消極的事物做出反應，基本和重行對計算機編程一樣。
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