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I had thought she was giving a supervision, not a lecture, and letting her off the hook would have wasted even more of her time.
我原以为她要去指导学生，不用上课。如果让她错过了，会耽误她更多的时间。
Robert Kennedy, JFK's attorney general, was an important part of the back-channel negotiations that got us off the hook.
约翰·肯尼迪的总律师罗伯特·肯尼迪在其后台渠道的协调中起到了至关重要的作用，使我们摆脱了险境。
This can be a good way both to prompt a speedy turnaround, and to let people off the hook in the long term.
这是一个不错的方法，它既能促使对方快速回复，长期来看，又能让人摆脱邮件压境的困扰。
If he had chosen another target in the mobile-mad city state, he might have got off the hook.
如果他选择的是这个手机泛滥的城市国家中别的目标，他也许就漏网了。
Tell everyone you know: "My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook. "
你知道自己的幸福只取决于自己，便摆脱了困境。
But Egypt and the Palestinians may not be prepared to let Israel off the hook.
但是埃及和巴勒斯坦也许不准备让以色列摆脱这个负担。
Forgiveness is not about letting the other person off the hook. It's about pulling the knife out of your own gut.
原谅别人不是使别人从困境中解脱出来，而是将刀子从自己的肝脏中拔出来。
"He hated posing for pictures with strangers in restaurants, but she did not let him off the hook, " writes Ms Kantor.
“他不愿和陌生人在餐馆摆好姿势拍照，但她从不让他脱身，”坎特尔在书中写道。
They settled for "someone with at least a second degree in economics" (which thankfully lets me off the hook).
他们最终勉强将其定义为“至少具有经济学硕士学位的人”（谢天谢地，我被排除在外了）。
Year end is usually off the hook with all wrapping up activities and the exciting anticipation .
年底有各种各样的收尾工作和令人兴奋的期待，让人紧张不已。
It will probably get you off the hook for a few days or months or keep the problem on the back burner.
它能使你在一些天甚至几个月内摆脱困境或者延缓问题。
Coulson also points to a flaw in auction procedure that lets truant buyers off the hook: houses do not have to honor most defaulted bids.
库尔森还指出了拍卖程序上让那些拍了不买的买家逃脱惩罚的一个小瑕疵，那就是拍卖行不必嘉奖那些拖欠付款的买方出价。
But I don't think he will let me off the hook if I'm late again.
不过我觉得要是再有下次，他肯定不会放过我。
One is a statement, and the other is a question. One lets you off the hook, and the other forces you to think.
一个是陈述句，另一个是疑问句，一个让你放弃，而另一个则促使你去想办法。
Data revisions, though, are unlikely to get Beijing fully off the hook of a dilemma of its own making.
然而，修改数据不大可能帮助北京完全摆脱这一由它自己造成的两难处境。
Ask for two or ten or three hundred melons, and the number lets you off the hook by replacing the article altogether.
如果你买上两个、十个或是三百个瓜，这些数字干脆一股脑儿取代了冠词，让你彻底解放。
But just as I've never let her off the hook for screaming meanness, I don't believe my Italian ancestry explains my moods.
但是，就像我从来没能让她从恶劣的大喊大叫中解脱出来，我也不相信我的意大利祖先能解释我的心情。
I'm letting you off the hook this time. But next time! Next time, you have to say it from the heart. Okay?
我这次先饶了你，但是下次！下次，你不要再在心里说这话了，好吗？
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。
You think you're off the hook just by leaving? Dream on!
你以为一走就了事啦？没那么便宜！
"You know his agent's phone is ringing off the hook, " one Beijinger put it.
“他经纪人的电话该被打爆了”，一个北京人如是说。
The committee be to let the CEO off the hook if he resigns his post.
假如执行长辞职的话，委员会就会让他摆脱困境。
In any case, for now PC makers still seem to be off the hook.
不管怎样，电脑厂商目前似乎暂时摆脱了困境。
You know what I say? I say this prom is gonna be off the hook!
你知道我现在怎么想吗？我觉得这次的毕业舞会会很棒
But officials have also argued at each point of the process that letting banks off the hook serves the interests of the economy as a whole.
不过，在进程中的每个环节，官员都声称，放银行一马是服务于整体的经济利益。
Sorry, the phone must be off the hook. Would you mind waiting for a moment?
对不起，他的话筒没放好，请您稍等一会儿好吗？
That's not to say that the guys are entirely off the hook.
当然，这不是说男人们完全从良了。
You want me to let you off the hook again?
你想让我再放过你一次吗？
I had meetings back to back all morning. And phone rang off the hook from the minute I walked into the office.
整个早上我有背靠背的会议。从我走进办公室那一刻开始电话就响个不停。
The next day, our phone started ringing off the hook.
第二天，我们的电话开始响个不停。
The box office phones were ringing off the hook all day.
售票处的电话铃整天都没有停过。
Largely because of Chinese recalcitrance, North Korea was all-but let off the hook by the United Nations this month.
在很大程度上，正是由于中国的顽固立场，朝鲜本月基本上逃脱了联合国的谴责。
'The phone was ringing off the hook, '' he said.
高桥说：电话都被打爆了。
He was just shocked, shocked when he phone started ringing off the hook.
他当时感到震惊，当他的电话开始响时就感到震惊。
let you off the hook You think God will let you off the hook?
你们以为上帝会让你们摆脱困境吗？
Let me off the hook with a mild reprimand .
温和地责备后便放过了我。
Since the earthquake, the Red Cross lines have been ringing off the hook.
地震发生后，红十字会的电话响个不停。
The phone behind the bullion counter rings off the hook as a frantic sales clerk tries to answer buyers' questions .
金条柜台后面的电话响个不停，一位忙得晕头转向的售货员努力解答着顾客们的问题。
But EU diplomats say none of this will let Turkey off the hook over Cyprus.
但是欧盟的外交官说，没什么能让土耳其绕开塞浦路斯问题。
No criminal trial for Britney Spears after she caused a fender-bender in a Los Angeles-area parking lot. Spears isn't off the hook though.
布兰妮在洛杉矶某地区的停车场制造了一起无人伤害的小型车祸，但事后她并没有遭到刑事审判。
