我不久前帶侄子去考駕照，眼看著他倒車上了馬路牙子，本認為這下沒戲了，沒想到考官竟然給了他第二次機遇，末了擦著邊兒經由過程了路考。這也讓我想起一個習氣用語可以跟眾人分享。那便是：squeak by.
聽過老鼠的尖啼聲嗎，這類啼聲在英文便是squeak. To squeak by，意思是委曲經由過程，榮幸勝利。
適才說，我侄子駕照路考的成就恰好過線。咱們就能夠說，he squeaked by. 不外，我的鄰人詹姆斯太太就沒有這麽榮幸了。75歲的她為了延駕照，要接收目力測試，考官讓她從後視鏡裏分辯蘋果和桌子兩個圖象，她竟然問考官，你說甚麽桌子?What table? 成果駕照沒延成。The official didn't let her squeak by.
下面例子裏的門生拿到考卷後如釋重負。咱們一路來聽聽是怎樣回事。
例句-1：My university doesn't allow graduate students to get any C's. So I was really nervous about my final exam in chemistry. But when my grades were posted, I discovered that I had gotten an 80, which qualified as a B. Whew! If I hadn't squeaked by, my dad would have been furious.
這個門生說：在咱們黌舍，研討生是不許可得C的。我此次化學期終考完試後，內心特殊重要，末了成就下來，我患了八非常，恰好夠得上B，真是萬幸，假如沒能榮幸過關的話，我爸必定會氣炸了。
還記得前年帶孩子去遊樂場玩，兒子由於個頭不敷高，許多姐姐能玩的器械他都不克不及去。一年下來，他長了足足兩英寸，客歲再去，恰好擦邊夠高，全部翻騰過山車都能坐了。He was thrilled to have squeaked by.
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假如讓你在富有但卻空虛，和貧苦但卻充分這兩種生存之間選取一個。你會選哪一個?咱們一路來聽聽下面的例子：
例句-2：I admire my friend Alice. She could have easily chosen a high-paying career. Instead, she took a position with a non-profit organization dedicated to saving endangered tigers. I don't know how she manages to pay her bills on her meager salary. But somehow she squeaks by.
這小我說：我很信服我同夥Alice. 她本來可以選取一份高薪的事情，然則她沒有，反而參加了一個搶救瀕危山君的非紅利機構。我真不曉得她掙的那點兒錢，怎樣夠付賬，不外她好象也能拼集過。
咱們剛娶親那會兒，兩小我沒若幹錢，家裏開支卻許多。It wasn't easy squeaking by. 一分錢掰成兩半花的日子確切欠好過。那會兒咱們還年青，在英語裏，叫Salad Days, 意思是年幼無知的芳華韶華。
To squeak by這個習氣用語是二十世紀上半葉湧現的，想一想看，squeak指的是委曲發出來的聲音，以是，用 squeak by來指委曲經由過程，榮幸得勝，也就不難懂得了。
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