查询词典 pinch-hit

Never trust a friend who deserts you at a pinch.

永远不要相信在危急时舍弃你的朋友。

There was luxurious turning-room for one; and at a pinch the thing might serve for two.

译文「有一间豪华的单人房，必要时，还可以两个人用。

We can get six people round this table at a pinch.

必要时，这张桌子可以坐六个人。

The new man's people say everything, at a pinch, has taken place in a legal framework.

新总统的手下说紧要关头发生的一切都没逾越法律框架。

Eg: We can put up ten people for the night at a pinch.

必要时我们可以留10个人留宿。

They assumed that at a pinch they could always borrow funds and sell their assets.

他们认为，一旦到了紧要关头，自己总能够借到钱，能够出售资产。

As he listened to him and drank in the sound of his voice, he enjoyed at the same time a protracted pinch of snuff.

他一面听他说，欣赏他说话的声音，同时，深深地吸了一撮鼻烟。

Then tip the seeds into the palm of each child's hand and get him or her to take a pinch at a time, sprinkling the seeds on the surface of the compost.

然后变身为每个孩子的手掌的种子，让他或她在紧要关头的时候，撒在表面的堆肥的种子。

In that respect, they are not like top and middle feeders, where food is given a pinch at a time, and feeding should stop as soon as they lose interest.

在这方面，他们不喜欢高层与中层料器，其中食品被赋予捏一次，进应尽快停止他们失去了兴趣。

My generation can even do Twitter, at a pinch.

必要时，我们这代人甚至能上Twitter。

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。