let off the hook

基本解释

• 脱离困境

英汉例句

双语例句

• While most of Ms Lagarde’s to-do list applied to Europe and America, the big emerging economies were not let off the hook.
  尽管拉加德列出的大部分举措适用于欧美国家，她也未让主要的新兴经济体袖手旁观。
• 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，水力压裂行业及其捍卫者所要求的，却正是对自身造成的损失一推了之。
• 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.
  同时如果政客们感到迟早会错过取胜的机会，那么缺少承诺的谈判也许会进行的更好。

原声例句

• 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.
  从大卫和妮娜的协调中得不出什么结论,这事儿还没结束呢
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• He's not about to let mankind off the hook with Judgment Day.
  他并不打算让人类从审判日的挂钩上下来。
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权威例句

• 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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词组短语

短语

• let sb off the hook 放过某人
• let someone off the hook 让某人摆脱麻烦;让某人解脱麻烦;摆脱困境;让或人摆脱麻烦
• let it off the hook 放它一马
• Let you off the hook 放你一马

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