Talk about having your cake and eating it too!

真是两者兼得啊！

So maybe you can have your cake and eat it too.

所以可能你可以做蛋糕，然后也可以吃。

Well, you can't have your cake and eat it, Li!

李，鱼和熊掌不可兼得。

We say 'you can't have your cake and eat it' because it's impossible.

我们说“鱼与熊掌不可兼得”，因为这是不可能的。

You can't do it! - You can't have your cake and eat it!

你做不到！- 鱼与熊掌不可兼得！

We are looking at the expression 'have your cake and eat it', which is another idiom.

我们正在学习“鱼与熊掌兼得”这个表达，这又是一个习语。

It's a very unique thing, though, to be able to have your cake and eat it too, right?

不过，能鱼与熊掌兼得是件很特别的事，对吗？

This is the idea behind the idiom " you can't have your cake and eat it" .

这就是成语“你不能既有蛋糕又吃蛋糕”的意思。

Here, you have the best of both worlds. You can have your cake and eat it too!

在这里，你可以两者兼得！

You could say to him, " Look, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Better services cost money."

“听着，鱼和熊掌不可兼得。更好的服务是要花钱的。”

" To have your cake and eat it too" .

“吃你的蛋糕， 也吃它” 。

All this talk about cake has brought my attention to a common expression: to have your cake and eat it too.

to have your cake and eat it too(两者兼得)。

So, you can have your cake and eat it too!

所以，你可以吃蛋糕也可以吃！

You can't have your cake and eat it too also means we should not try to have more than is reasonable.

“You can't have your cake and eat it too”也可以表示我们不应该设法拥有超出合理范围的东西。

And I would be rather sorry if their mating patterns were disturbed. But you can't have your cake and eat it too.

如果他们的交配模式受到干扰，我会感到非常遗憾。但是，鱼和熊掌不能兼得。

But in some countries, you get to have your cake and eat it too.

但在某些国家/地区， 您可以吃蛋糕也可以吃。

So, if you want to have your cake and eat it, you want to gain two advantages from one thing, but it's not possible.

因此，如果你想鱼与熊掌兼得，你想从一件事中获得两个好处，但这是不可能的。

Back in 2022, we taught the idiom to have your cake and eat it too.

早在2022年，我们就教授过“鱼与熊掌兼得”这个习语。

Icing on the cake means something good that happens in addition to another good thing. Another expression says you can't have your cake and eat it, too.

锦上添花(Icing on the cake)意思是好上加好。另一个表达是说鱼与熊掌不可兼得(you can't have your cake and eat it)。

Calm down. I said, " You can't have your cake and eat it." We use this phrase in English to mean that you can't have something both ways.

冷静。我说You can't have your cake and eat it，在英语中我们用这个短语来表示你不能同时拥有两样东西。