Jane: Thanks for your reminding. I am off the hook today.
简：谢谢你提醒，但我今天不用工作。
"The study doesn't let transgressors off the hook, " said Garcia.
“这项研究不是让感情不忠者开脱，”加西亚说。
But since Iceland's population is a mere 300, 000, they're off the hook.
但是由于冰岛的人口仅有30万人，他们正摆脱困境。
If selling is an art, and I'm not an artist, then I'm off the hook, right?
如果销售是一门艺术，而我不是艺术家，那么就没我的事了，不是吗？
Well, we can afford to be generous now that I'm off the hook for alimony .
嗯，我们能这么大方是因为，我不用再付赡养费了。
Don't imagine for one minute that a simple lawn will let you off the hook here.
不要以为只要一分钟，一个简单的草坪，将让你砍断。
We almost sued the magazine for libel, but in the end we let them off the hook.
我们差点要控告这家杂志诽谤，但最后我们还是饶了他们。
It wasn't about letting the other person off the hook and forgetting what they had done.
不是让别人摆脱困境，忘掉他们的所作所为。
For example, if someone is "off the hook," it means that he is no longer in trouble.
例如，如果说某人“脱离鱼钩”，那表示他已脱离困境。
Let's hear some examples of how the expression 'to let someone off the hook' is used.
让我们听几个例子，看看“让某人脱离困境”这种说法是怎么用的。
I couldn't get any work done this morning because the phone kept ringing off the hook.
今天早上电话一直响个不停，我什么事都不能做。
And skinny people are not off the hook when it comes to the risks of sedentary behavior.
当谈到久坐行为的风险时，瘦小的人也不能幸免。
But what they detest is the idea that it might let feckless Italians and Portuguese off the hook.
但是他们讨厌他们实行的解救欧元区的计划也会让意大利和葡萄牙摆脱困境。
Just because the oil spill is plugged doesn't mean we're off the hook: there's still work to do.
石油泄漏被堵住了，但这并不意味着我们大功告成可以松一口气；还有许多工作要去做。
Garrison's phones have been ringing off the hook since the house was put on the market on Friday.
这套豪宅于上周五开始出售后，加里森的电话都被打爆了。
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。
Celebrating failure (" fail fast "goes the mantra) seems to let people off the hook for bad behavior.
庆祝失败(“快速失败”成了口头禅)似乎可以让那些因行为不当而失败的人摆脱困境。
Sorry, but the case that letting Banks off the hook would help the housing market just doesn't hold together.
对不起，不过说放银行一马有助于住房市场根本就站不住脚。
Then they let them off the hook: Mario gomez scored a very lucky equaliser, probably from an offside position.
然后，他们出招了：戈麦斯打进了非常幸运的扳平一球，这球很可能越位在先。
The burp could, of course, have been provoked by the eruptions, so the volcanoes are not off the hook completely.
甲烷从海底的突然逸出也可能是由火山喷发引发的，因此火山活动对此也应该是有贡献的。
This is important to ensure that as gifted a communicator as Blair is not allowed to slip off the hook, " Clegg said.
这一点很重要，以确保象布莱尔一样有沟通天赋的不能逃避困境，”克莱格说。 他还解释了私人听证会只会在一个真正安全保密国家举行的原因。
Actually, I haven't left the studio for a while, Neil. I need to go and eat something. Could you let me off the hook please?
事实上，我已经有一会儿没离开过演播室了，尼尔。我需要出去，再吃点东西。你能让我脱身吗？拜托了。
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。
The Securities and Exchange Commission frets that looser rules will let key derivative traders, such as hedge funds, off the hook.
证券交易委员会担心太宽松的条款可能会让像对冲基金这样的主要衍生物的交易者漏网。
The little moron was waiting for a telephone call and couldn't wait any longer; so he took the receiver off the hook and left a note.
小傻瓜正在等电话，等得不耐烦了，他将听筒从电话机上摘下，留了个口信。
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) frets that looser rules will let key derivative traders, such as hedge funds, off the hook.
证券交易委员会（简称证交会）担心太宽松的条款可能会让像对冲基金这样的主要衍生物的交易者漏网。
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。
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。
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