by inches

1 Little by little he usurped his boss's authority.

他逐渐地篡夺老板的权力。

2 Tom Courtney, a Fordham University graduate who with a homestretch surge and a lunge at the tape won a furious 800-meter run by inches in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, capturing the gold medal for the United States, died on Tuesday at an assisted living facility in Naples, Fla.

3 Olivia runs a lathe which cuts semifinished product of metal by inches.

奥利维亚开动一台车床,车床一点一点地切削着金属毛坯.

4 We escaped from the accident by inches.

我们差点儿就出意外了.

5 It's covered with a gel-like cooling cover, and the deep coils are surrounded by inches of foam to cradle you from head to toe.

6 Before the end, Giovinco made a great run and his shot was off target by inches.

临近结束前, 吉奥文科漂亮的跑位,但他的射门缓慢偏出.

7 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!

8 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.

9 She was dying by inches.

她慢慢地死去.

10 The artist cut away the marble bit by bit.

艺术家一点一点地雕刻大理石。

11 They moved it by inches.

他们缓缓地移动.

12 To get down to an interior volume of just below 3,000 gross tons and still keep to the owner’s wish list, the designers focused on shaving the interior’s measurements—sometimes reducing headroom by inches on specific areas.

13 They escaped death by inches when the house collapsed.

房子塌下来,差点儿把他们砸死.

14 She escaped death by inches when the wall fell down.

墙塌下来,差点把她砸死.

15 Their friendship was growing by degrees into love.

他们的友谊正逐渐地发展成爱情。

16 The river was rising by inches.

河水逐渐上涨.

17 I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little.

我自己也只是一点一点地才成为一个戴高乐主义者的。

18 In extreme cases, like in California’s agriculturally intensive San Joaquin Valley, elevations have plummeted not by inches, but by dozens of feet.

19 This is soccer by inches, with a team losing and gaining the ball within seconds.

20 The truck missed me by inches.

那辆卡车差一点撞上我.

1 差一点儿就

go near to do

2 几乎

most nearly virtually practically wellnigh near- near to doing just about more or less as good as close on next door to about next almost well-nigh sub- getting on for come within an ace of close to going on as much as all but anywhere near near enough

3 好容易才

scantly jimp by the skin of teeth

4 好不容易

hard at long last with difficulty

5 一点一点地

inchmeal bit by bit inch by inch piecemeal by little and little by piecemeal by small and small piece by piece by parcels by inchmeal

6 一点一点

piecemeal inchmeal by little and little by piecemeal by small and small piece by piece

7 好不容易地

hard

8 差一点儿

within a whisker of within an inch of doing within an ace of doing narrowly