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Meaning of 惹火烧身

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惹 rě 火 huǒ 烧 shāo 身 shēn (Trad.: 惹火燒身)
stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); to get one's fingers burnt; fig. to suffer on account of one's own meddling
Related Words
Antonyms: 明哲保身
Example Sentences
1
不要介入得太深以致于惹火烧身
。
Don't burn your fingers by getting too involved.
2
新政府在制定这项控制货币的新法律时已是在惹火烧身
。
The new government had laid its head on the block when it made this new law to control the country's money.
3
据
《
华尔街日报
》
报道
,
崔天凯说
:
“
我以为
,
当初有一些国家正在作茧自缚
。
我盼望美国不要惹火烧身
。
"I believe some countries now are playing with fire. And I hope the U. S. won't be burned by this fire, " Cui said, as quoted by The Wall Street Journal.
4
朱拉是不具代表性质的狂想家
,
只会为斯大林辩解
,
却极少谈及对当代俄国的看法
。
要驳斥他并不难
,
但也许会惹火烧身
。
It would be easy, but wrong, to dismiss Zhura as an unrepresentative crackpot whose defence of Stalin says little about contemporary Russian opinion.
5
华盛顿深陷阿富汗战争
,
无法脱身
,
虽然美国在吉尔吉斯斯坦玛纳斯有个重要的军事基地
,
但美国并不愿惹火烧身
。
Washington is obsessed with Afghanistan, and though the Americans have a major base in Kyrgyzstan at Manas, they seem disinclined to do very much.