get the better of

Eventually, his curiosity got the better of him and he had to take a look in the box.

最后，他好奇心占了，他不由自主地打开了一眼。

It was the one wild outcry, in which the woman's feebler nature got the better of the syren's art.

这是一种狂野呼喊，女性软弱天性在其中占了塞壬妖术。