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

当一个角色被吊在自己脚下，它总是很吸引人。

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

听众，我在休息两分钟内投降了， 我做了谷歌petard。

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

听众，应该写信告诉我， 什么是petard？

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

无论如何，我什至不知道我说对不对。

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

怎么样？我做得怎么样？知道什么是宠物吗？

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.

伊坎而言， 这给了我一个借口， 可以使用我一直想使用短语，而这却是他自己搬起石头砸自己脚。

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.

在我想象中， 佩塔德是一种中世纪武器， 有点像长矛、戟或长矛，在某种比武事故中， 会以某种方式被举在它上面。