英漢類同成語(yǔ)的翻譯（2）

　　(5)fish in troubled waters混水摸魚，乘人之危。

　　He's always been good at fishing in troubled waters; he made a lot of money by buying houses that were bombed in the war.他總是善于乘人之危大撈一把，他靠購(gòu)買在戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)中遭過(guò)轟炸的房屋而賺了大量的錢財(cái)。

　　(6)fish out of water離水之魚，不得其所。

　　She felt like a fish of water at the evening party because she knew no one. 她在晚會(huì)上感到很局促，因?yàn)樗粋€(gè)人也不認(rèn)識(shí)。

　　(7)gives someone an inch and he will take an ell得寸進(jìn)尺。

　　If you give those people an inch，they'll take an ell;we told them they might use our side path to reach their garden，now they have fenced in the path so that we cannot use it ourselves.那些人就是得寸進(jìn)尺;我們對(duì)他們說(shuō)，他們可以經(jīng)過(guò)我們的小道進(jìn)他們的花園，現(xiàn)在他們已在小道上修起了籬笆，以致我們自己也無(wú)法走這條小路過(guò)去了。

　　(8)go west上西天，死，失敗。

　　Poor John was one of those who went west in the explosion.可憐的約翰是在這次爆炸中魂歸西天的人物之一。