let someone off

常見(jiàn)例句

Let someone else give me off?
還是讓別人給我拖？
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In English, to let someone off the hook means to free them from an obligation.
在英語(yǔ)里，讓某人脫身的意思就是使他們擺脫某種職責(zé)。
From the giver's point of view, once someone has let you off the hook in this way, you should feel no pressure to contribute.
從出錢(qián)人的角度來(lái)看，如果有人讓你自作決定而不讓你為難，你便不會(huì)感到有壓力了。

If you want to get some input from the user, my God I don't want to have to program it to low level zero and 1 just to get keys from the keyboard; please let there have been someone who does that for me and indeed there are an increasingly sophisticated options that you can pull off the shelf.
如果你想獲得一些用戶(hù)的輸入數(shù)據(jù)，我的上帝,我可不希望在鍵盤(pán)上敲入0，1的低水平方式來(lái)編程;,希望有個(gè)人能幫我做這件事吧,但是現(xiàn)有的選擇,也變得日益復(fù)雜了。
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General rules when it comes to breaking bad news: Don't put it off, don't pass it off to someone else and don't let your emotions get the better of you.
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In fact, the independent counsel law let Congress (and the media) off the hook with this Administration -- someone else was doing the investigating.
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