查询词典 off the hook

He is off the hook because his alibi is checked out.

他已经脱身了，因为他的不在场''。

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。

You're off the hook with me, lamb chops.

你不是我喜欢的类型小嫩羊

Debt collectors ringing your phone off the hook and sending intimidating letters can frazzle anyone's nerves.

收数响您的手机摆脱困境和发送恐吓信，可以frazzle任何人的神经。

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers.

这句话的中文和英文我对照后有些不解，请问：ring off the hook 是个短语吗，什么意思？

Ring off the hook 电话铃声不断 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。

The connection converting apparatus includes: a hook detector for detecting a hooked state of the telephone; a relay for connecting the telephone to either the Internet or the PSTN according to a commmand; a duplex circuit for suppressing voice leakage and side tone by converting and reconverting from a two-line signal of the telephone to a four-line signal for transmission and reception; a tone decoder for decoding a DTMF tone of the telephone; and a microprocessor for exchanging control data for the user's computer, controlling the relay to cause the telephone to be connected to the Internet when the hook detector detects an off-the-hook state of the telephone, and providing number data to the user's computer when the microprocessor receives number data from the tone decoder.

所述连接转换装置包括：用于检测所述电话的摘机状态的摘机检测器；用于根据命令将所述电话连接到互联网或PSTN的转接器；用于通过从所述电话的双路信号到用来传送和接收的四路信号之间的转换及复原来抑制声音泄漏和侧音的双工电路；用于对所述电话的DTMF音进行解码的音频解码器；以及微处理器，其用于交换来自所述用户的计算机的控制数据、控制所述转接器以使所述电话在所述摘机检测器检测到所述电话的摘机状态时连接到互联网、以及在所述微处理器接收到来自所述音频解码器的号码数据时向所述用户的计算机提供号码数据。

Drop the dime on:告密,the act of snitching, ratting, or otherwise disclosing information meant to hurt or discredit someone else. This a play on tips and selling someone out.

off the hook：从某个困境中解放出来，这个说法来自于形容鱼脱离鱼钩，引申的含义就表示逃离困境、责难等不好的情况。

The emergency light is off, so that must mean he's off the hook .

警告灯熄了，所以一定表示他已经脱离险境了。

On the off chance that you need but cannot get cash quickly , bad credit paydays loans can still help get you off the hook .

对场外的机会，您所需要的，但不能迅速得到现金，信用不良者 paydays 贷款仍然可以帮助您摆脱困境。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。