英语释义

1. a unit of length equal to 1/?? yard — see Weights and Measures Table

2. a small amount, distance, or degree
is like cutting a dog's tail off by inches
— Milton Friedman

3. stature, height

4. a fall (as of rain or snow) sufficient to cover a surface or to fill a gauge to the depth of one inch

5. a degree of atmospheric or other pressure sufficient to balance the weight of a column of liquid (such as mercury) one inch high in a barometer or manometer

6. a small advantage especially from lenient or compassionate treatment —usually used in the phrase give an inch

7. to the utmost degree
looks every inch a winner

8. very gradually or slowly

9. almost to the point of
came within an inch of succeeding

10. to move by small degrees progress slowly
the long line of people inching up the stairs

11. to cause to move slowly
sooner or later they begin inching prices back up
— Forbes

12. island

13. to move very slowly or by a small amount in a specified direction or manner

14. a unit of length equal to 1/?? yard (2.54 centimeters)

15. to move a little bit at a time We inched to the ticket counter.

16. a unit of length equal to 1/?? yard or 2.54 centimeters

片语

within an ace of差一点；几乎

all but几乎，差一点

英汉例句

• my brother had hard luck in the snooker tournament; he came within an inch of winning the cup.

  我兄弟在落袋撞球锦标赛中真倒霉，差一点儿就赢得了大奖杯。

• 「[these presentations] are choreographed to within an inch of their lives, but they have to be personal,」 he explains. the planning paid off.

  写得非常贴近生活，但它们必须要展现个人，”他解释道。这番策划收到了成效。

• bogs didn「t put anything in andy」s mouth, and neither did his friends. what they did do is beat him within an inch of his life…

  伯格斯没有把任何东西放到安迪的嘴里，他的朋友们也没有。他们只是把安迪打了个半死。

• therefore, instead of mere beheading william wallace is subject to being hung, hung within an inch of death.

  罗伯对父亲的诡计感到怒不可遏，华莱士终于被判死刑。

• within an inch of the west access door where not bad beijing olympiad opening ceremony dvd, is purchase? ? ?

  北京奥运会开幕式dvd，在西便门附近哪里可以买到？？？

• every morning i lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door. the blind was pulled down to within an inch of the sash so that i could not be seen.

  每天清晨我都躺在前厅的地板上望着她家的门，百叶窗被我拉到离窗框不足一寸的地方，这样就没人看得见我。

• he was within an inch of solving the problem.

  他差点解决了这个问题。

• 「i suppose nobody wants my opinion, annie, but if i had talked to my parents like that when i was a child i would have been whipped within an inch of my life, 」 said aunt mary maria.

  「我猜没有人会听我的意见，安妮娅，但我小时候如果敢那样对我父母讲话的话，肯定会被狠狠揍一顿的。」玛丽·玛利亚阿姨说。

• the bear clawed the hunter within an inch of his life.

  那熊差一点指把猎人撕碎。

• li xuemei said her within an inch of to cry , because that paragraph of time passes really too painstaking.

  李雪梅说她差点哭了，因为那段时间过得实在太辛劳。

• he came within an inch of being struck by the falling brick.

  他差一点被掉下来的砖头打中。

• at last, when one of his huge feet came within an inch of king lion「s nose, the animals were so disgusted that they set upon the camel in a rage and drove him out into the desert.

  就在骆驼的大脚掌还差一英寸就踩到狮子王鼻子的时候，动物们终于忍无可忍了，于是他们开始愤怒地攻击骆驼，并将他赶到沙漠中去。

• kevin : well, they」re opening a restaurant, mom. i「m sure they」re broke and medicated to within an inch of their lives.

  呵，他们开餐馆了，妈，我确定他们一边享受破产一边享受药物。

• what the three of them did was to beat andy within an inch of his life, and all four of them ended up doing a jolt in solitary.

  他们三个人结结实实把安迪打了一顿，差那么一点点就把他打死；而四个人都关了一阵子禁闭。

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