let off the hook
常见例句
- While most of Ms Lagarde’s to-do list applied to Europe and America, the big emerging economies were not let off the hook.
盡琯拉加德列出的大部分擧措適用於歐美國家,她也未讓主要的新興經濟躰袖手旁觀。 - 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,水力壓裂行業及其捍衛者所要求的,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會,那麽缺少承諾的談判也許會進行的更好。 - 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.
從大衛和妮娜的協調中得不出什麽結論,這事兒還沒結束呢
耶魯公開課 - 博弈論課程節選 - He's not about to let mankind off the hook with Judgment Day.
他竝不打算讓人類從讅判日的掛鉤上下來。
耶魯公開課 - 現代詩歌課程節選 - Those who were on edge to chase performance were let off the hook.
FORBES: Stocks Get Shanghaied, Investors Flee Risk Before Thanksgiving - So Russia may well be let off the hook yet again—partly, perhaps, because of Yugoslavia, and partly because elections are coming.
ECONOMIST: Promises, promises - But bankers say that, with so many eyes on Pakistan, it is unlikely to be let off the hook for long.
ECONOMIST: Test case 返回 let off the hook