英漢類同成語的翻譯（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，他靠購買在戰(zhàn)爭中遭過轟炸的房屋而賺了大量的錢財。

　　(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. 她在晚會上感到很局促，因為她一個人也不認(rèn)識。

　　(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;我們對他們說，他們可以經(jīng)過我們的小道進(jìn)他們的花園，現(xiàn)在他們已在小道上修起了籬笆，以致我們自己也無法走這條小路過去了。

　　(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。