by inches

英 [baɪ ˈɪntʃɪz]

美 [baɪ ˈɪntʃɪz]

网络  慢慢地; 缓慢地

英英释义

adv

• by a short distance
  1. they moved it by inches
  Synonym:little by littleby small degrees

双语例句

• She was suffering from malarial fever, and seemed dying by inches.
  她当时正发着一种寒热病，似乎正在慢慢地死去。
• Olivia runs a lathe which cuts semifinished product of metal by inches. Steps were made on the female die surface to make up for the thickness different of the blanks.
  奥利维亚开动一台车床，车床一点一点地切削着金属毛坯。凹模表面和型腔加工了台阶以补偿坯料的厚度差值。
• Please cut the trousers by two inches.
  请把这条裤子剪掉2英寸。
• Using a limited form of precognition, zealots can even predict enemy movements striking, with deadly accuracy and dodging attacks by inches.
  狂热者还会运用他们有限的预知能力判断敌人的移动和攻击，从而给予致命的精确的近距离攻击。
• They escaped death by inches.
  他们差一点死了。
• The bus just shaved me by inches.
  公共汽车从我身边擦过。
• The study reveals that, on the average, the witnesses overestimated the man's height by five inches, his age by eight years, and gave the wrong hair color in83 percent of the cases.
  研究显示，目击者们平均高估了小偷的身高达五英寸，高估了小偷的年龄达八岁，83%的人说错了小偷的头发颜色。
• The bullet missed him by two inches.
  那子弹差两英寸就打中他了。
• I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair of his head!
  我宁可寸磔而死，也不会碰他一根头发！
• Kami leaned in as if to whisper something and snapped at the Invid's face, missing it by inches.
  卡米身体前倾，好像要在他耳边说点什么，然后朝因维人的脸猛咬过去，结果偏了几英寸。