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While most of Ms Lagarde’s to-do list applied to Europe and America, the big emerging economies were not let off the hook.
尽管拉加德列出的大部分举措适用于欧美国家，她也未让主要的新兴经济体袖手旁观。
Yet what the industry and its defenders demand is, of course, precisely that it be let off the hook for the damage it causes.
然而，水力压裂行业及其捍卫者所要求的，却正是对自身造成的损失一推了之。
And the world’s politicians, they may well negotiate with less commitment if they feel that they may one day be let off the hook.
同时如果政客们感到迟早会错过取胜的机会，那么缺少承诺的谈判也许会进行的更好。

But,they say they will not let the president off the hook until a number of important questions are answered and certain reprehensible acts are ended.
I don't know what this tells us about David and Nina, but don't let them off the hook quite yet.
从大卫和妮娜的协调中得不出什么结论,这事儿还没结束呢
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He's not about to let mankind off the hook with Judgment Day.
他并不打算让人类从审判日的挂钩上下来。
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Those who were on edge to chase performance were let off the hook.
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