英语词汇“by the skin of one's teeth”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P7. by (also with) the skin of one's teeth: by a very narrow margin, barely, only just. Also occasionally with ellipsis of the preposition. [After biblical Hebrew bĕʿōr šinnāi (Job 19:20), lit. ‘with the skin of my teeth’, thus in quot. 1560 a literalism of translation, which its use in the King James Bible helped to make proverbial in English. However, the sense of the passage in Job is uncertain and disputed, as is the grammatical analysis and meaning of the Hebrew verb form immediately preceding the noun phrase; many recent commentators doubt that the Hebrew text offers any support for the notion of a ‘narrow escape’. The Vulgate and Septuagint render the passage differently (Vulgate: et derelicta sunt tantummodo labia circa dentes meos ‘only my lips are left around my teeth’; Septuagint: τὰ δὲ ὁστᾶ μου ἑν ὁδοῦσιν ἔχεται ‘my bones are held in my teeth’), the Septuagint apparently following an emendation of the Hebrew text. Compare the Wycliffite Bible, following the text of the Vulgate:

▸ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Job xix. 20 Oneli þe lippis ben laft aboute my teeþ.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > [phrase] > with difficulty

of (also by, with) hardc1330

with needa1500

by (also with) the skin of one's teeth1560

1560 Bible (Geneva) Job xix. 20 I haue escaped with the skinne of my tethe.

1647 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. Psalms in Tracts (1727) 510 He reckoned himself only escaped with the skin of his teeth, that he had nothing left.

1774 E. Allen Brief Narr. Proc. Govt. New-York 72 They left their Possessions and Farms to the Conquerers, and escaped with the Skin of their Teeth.

1816 J. Marsden Narr. Mission Nova Scotia Pref. 8 Having escaped by the skin of my teeth, I may be allowed to look back upon the dangers I have passed and with the voice of salutary warning point them out to others.

1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 109 Skin o' my teeth, I guess, if it hadn't been for Watty boy.

1893 Nation 9 Feb. 99/2 His eldest son was implicated in the robbery.., and came off by the skin of his teeth.

1941 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 6–8 Mar. (1995) 52 I ought to have got a good scholarship, I only landed by the skin of my teeth an exhibition of £60 at Exeter.

1955 Times 16 May 12/2 On each occasion France escaped with the skin of their teeth.

2002 C. Slaughter Before Knife (2003) viii. 133 I made it here only by the skin of my teeth, I'm telling you.

单词	by the skin of one's teeth
释义	> as lemmas by (also with) the skin of one's teeth P7. by (also with) the skin of one's teeth: by a very narrow margin, barely, only just. Also occasionally with ellipsis of the preposition. [After biblical Hebrew bĕʿōr šinnāi (Job 19:20), lit. ‘with the skin of my teeth’, thus in quot. 1560 a literalism of translation, which its use in the King James Bible helped to make proverbial in English. However, the sense of the passage in Job is uncertain and disputed, as is the grammatical analysis and meaning of the Hebrew verb form immediately preceding the noun phrase; many recent commentators doubt that the Hebrew text offers any support for the notion of a ‘narrow escape’. The Vulgate and Septuagint render the passage differently (Vulgate: et derelicta sunt tantummodo labia circa dentes meos ‘only my lips are left around my teeth’; Septuagint: τὰ δὲ ὁστᾶ μου ἑν ὁδοῦσιν ἔχεται ‘my bones are held in my teeth’), the Septuagint apparently following an emendation of the Hebrew text. Compare the Wycliffite Bible, following the text of the Vulgate: ▸ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Job xix. 20 Oneli þe lippis ben laft aboute my teeþ. ] ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > [phrase] > with difficulty of (also by, with) hardc1330 with needa1500 by (also with) the skin of one's teeth1560 1560 Bible (Geneva) Job xix. 20 I haue escaped with the skinne of my tethe. 1647 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. Psalms in Tracts (1727) 510 He reckoned himself only escaped with the skin of his teeth, that he had nothing left. 1774 E. Allen Brief Narr. Proc. Govt. New-York 72 They left their Possessions and Farms to the Conquerers, and escaped with the Skin of their Teeth. 1816 J. Marsden Narr. Mission Nova Scotia Pref. 8 Having escaped by the skin of my teeth, I may be allowed to look back upon the dangers I have passed and with the voice of salutary warning point them out to others. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 109 Skin o' my teeth, I guess, if it hadn't been for Watty boy. 1893 Nation 9 Feb. 99/2 His eldest son was implicated in the robbery.., and came off by the skin of his teeth. 1941 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 6–8 Mar. (1995) 52 I ought to have got a good scholarship, I only landed by the skin of my teeth an exhibition of £60 at Exeter. 1955 Times 16 May 12/2 On each occasion France escaped with the skin of their teeth. 2002 C. Slaughter Before Knife (2003) viii. 133 I made it here only by the skin of my teeth, I'm telling you. extracted from skinn. < as lemmas
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