【句子】Tom, you're not off the hook here!  【Desperate Housewives S2E8】

【发音】/tɒm/ /tɑːm/ /jə(r)/ /nɒt/ /nɑːt/ /ɒf/ /ɑːf/ /ðə/ /hʊk/ /hɪə(r)/

【发音技巧】not off连读+闪音；hook here不完全爆破；

【翻译】汤姆，你不能就这么不管了！

【适用场合】

今天我们来学习一下这个表达，off the hook，字面的意思是：“脱钩”，经常可以理解成“脱身、脱离困境；摆脱责任或者义务；”

allowed or able to avoid blame, responsibility, obligation, or difficulty

或者freed from an obligation；

eg: -- A: "I thought you had that big work event tonight."

-- B: "No, it got canceled, so I'm off the hook."

-- A：“我原本以为你今晚有那个重要的工作安排呢。”

-- B：“没有，它被取消了，所以我脱身了。”

eg: At first, Sam was suspected of stealing money from the safe, but he was let off the hook after security camera footage showed it was someone else.

一开始，山姆被怀疑从保险箱偷了钱。但是在监控录像表明作案者另有其人以后，他就摆脱了嫌疑。

eg: Thanks for getting me off the hook. I didn't want to attend that meeting.

谢谢你帮我脱身，我本来不想参加那个会议的。

eg: I couldn't get myself off the hook no matter what I tried.

无论我怎么做，都无法脱身。

eg: Once they found the real culprit, they let Mary off the hook. 

他们一找到真正的罪魁祸首，就释放了玛丽。

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I'll let you off the hook this time, but never again.