(in Mandarin) If you fight fire with fire, you will only create a bigger( or even greater) fire.
How do you say this in Mandarin?

Would I say this:

如果你根火戰鬥火，就挑火更大
if you fight fire with fire, it only stirs up an even greater fire

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(in Mandarin) If you fight fire with fire, you will only create a bigger( or even greater) fire.
How do you say this in Mandarin?

Would I say this:

如果你根火戰鬥火，就挑火更大
if you fight fire with fire, it only stirs up an even greater fire

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这里可以翻译为：如果针锋相对，那么最后谁也得不了好处（或者两败俱伤、无法收场）。

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太简单了，一个成语搞定“火上浇油”
It's a cinch，火上浇油，“throw oil into a burning fire"

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...ehm.. but I want to say that if you do that, it is not good, it will only cause more harm.

So how would I say that ..?

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以其人之道 還治其人之身 紛爭 (齟齬 衝突) 愈烈
以德報德 德益廣矣 以怨報怨 怨益深矣

實務上 發生森林火災時 "以火攻火" 是可行的救災手段

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