2021年外交部精彩翻译(8)

搬起石头砸自己的脚

The stone they are lifting will end up falling on their feet.

 

针对澳大利亚政府官员公开鼓吹中国威胁论，赵立坚9月10日称：

我们奉劝澳方政客不要渲染“中国威胁”、将中国树立为“假想敌”，这只能搬起石头砸自己的脚。

 

We hope Australian politicians will stop sensationalizing the so-called China threat and seeing China as the "imagined enemy", or else the stone they are lifting will end up falling on their feet.