1.It was always appealing when a character is hoist on his own petard.

当一个角色被吊在自己的脚下，它总很吸引人。机翻

2.How's that? How did I do? Do you know what a petard is?

怎么样？我做得怎么样？你知道什么吗？机翻

3.Listeners, you should write in and tell us, what is a petard?

听众们，你们该写信告诉我们， 什么petard？机翻

4.Listeners, I capitulated in the two minutes we were on break and I did Google petard.

听众们，我在休息的两分钟内投降了， 我做了谷歌petard。机翻

5.In any case, I don't even know if I'm saying petard right.

无论如何，我什至不知道我说的对不对。机翻

6.And in the case of Icahn, this gives me an excuse to use a phrase which I've long wanted to use, which is hoisted by his own petard.

就伊坎而言， 这给了我一个借口， 可以使用我一直想使用的短语，而这却他自己搬起石头砸自己的脚。机翻

7.How I picture a petard is some kind of medieval weapon that's sort of like a spear or a halberd or a pike, and that somehow you're hoisted on it in some kind of jousting accident.

在我的想象中， 佩塔德一种中世纪的武器， 有点像长矛、戟或长矛，在某种比武事故中， 你会以某种方式被举在它上面。机翻