【绝望的主妇】“逃过一劫！”
英语老师瑶瑶
【句子】Whatever, I’m off the hook. 【Desperate Housewives S1E8】
【发音】[wɒtˈevə]/[ wɑ:ˈtevər] [aɪm] [ɒf] [ðə] [hʊk]
【发音技巧】whatever美音浊化；hook不要读错
【翻译】管他的呢，反正我是逃过一劫了！
【适用场合】
off the hook
从困难中被救出来, 从陷阱中逃脱
If you are off the hook, you have escaped from a difficult situation:
eg: He has agreed to go to the meeting in my place. That gets me off the hook.
他同意替我去参加会议，真是把我给解放了。
eg: His opponents have no intention of letting him off the hook until he agrees to leave office immediately.
他的对手可不准备放过他，除非他同意立刻辞职。
eg: A: "I thought you had that big work event tonight." B: "No, it got canceled, so I'm off the hook."
A：“我还以为你今晚有特别重要的工作要处理呢。” B：“没有啦，取消啦，所以我解脱了！”
off the hook如果用于打电话的场景
指的是你把电话的听筒拿下来，放在其他地方，这样别人给你打电话，永远都是打不通的
if you leave or take the telephone off the hook, you take the RECEIVER (= the part that you pick up) off the place where it usually rests, so that nobody can call you
eg: That's why you couldn't get through to grandma's house—her phone was off the hook.
怪不得你之前打不通奶奶家的电话呢，她电话听筒没放好。
on the hook
为……而负责；跑不掉
To be held responsible (for something);
eg: You should think very carefully signing your name to those documents. If something goes wrong in the company, it could be you who's on the hook.
你在签那些文件的时候，要仔细考量。如果公司出事，账有可能会算你头上。
【尝试翻译以下句子，并留言在文章留言区】
I'm on the hook for nearly half a million dollars after my partner skipped town with the company's pension fund!
