let off the hook

基本解釋

• 脫離困境

英漢例句

雙語例句

• While most of Ms Lagarde’s to-do list applied to Europe and America, the big emerging economies were not let off the hook.
  盡管拉加德列出的大部分舉措適用于歐美國家，她也未讓主要的新興經(jīng)濟(jì)體袖手旁觀。
• Yet what the industry and its defenders demand is, of course, precisely that it be let off the hook for the damage it causes.
  然而，水力壓裂行業(yè)及其捍衛(wèi)者所要求的，卻正是對自身造成的損失一推了之。
• And the world’s politicians, they may well negotiate with less commitment if they feel that they may one day be let off the hook.
  同時如果政客們感到遲早會錯過取勝的機(jī)會，那么缺少承諾的談判也許會進(jìn)行的更好。

原聲例句

• But,they say they will not let the president off the hook until a number of important questions are answered and certain reprehensible acts are ended.
• I don't know what this tells us about David and Nina, but don't let them off the hook quite yet.
  從大衛(wèi)和妮娜的協(xié)調(diào)中得不出什么結(jié)論,這事兒還沒結(jié)束呢
  耶魯公開課 - 博弈論課程節(jié)選
• He's not about to let mankind off the hook with Judgment Day.
  他并不打算讓人類從審判日的掛鉤上下來。
  耶魯公開課 - 現(xiàn)代詩歌課程節(jié)選

權(quán)威例句

• Those who were on edge to chase performance were let off the hook.
  FORBES: Stocks Get Shanghaied, Investors Flee Risk Before Thanksgiving

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詞組短語

短語

• let sb off the hook 放過某人
• let someone off the hook 讓某人擺脫麻煩;讓某人解脫麻煩;擺脫困境;讓或人擺脫麻煩
• let it off the hook 放它一馬
• Let you off the hook 放你一馬

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