at a pinch

常见例句

双语例句

• We can put up ten people for the night at a pinch.
  必要时我们可以留宿十个人。 。
• At a pinch you might trace the point about names back to Plato.
  必要时你可以追溯到柏拉图的名字。
• The new man’s people say everything, at a pinch, has taken place in a legal framework.
  新总统的手下说紧要关头发生的一切都没逾越法律框架。

原声例句

• Many North Korea experts see Friday's far more modest wage proposal in the context of a recent thaw Pyongyang's attitude toward the South possibly aimed at boosting economic assistance as the North feels the pinch of international sanctions.

权威例句

• At a pinch, there may be some scope for negotiation over the status of the peacekeepers.
  ECONOMIST: Kosovo: Bluff, intrigue, war—or peace The
• And at a pinch, he could probably turn to his friends in Beijing for a new loan.
  ECONOMIST: Venezuela's economy
• The Czechs could at a pinch turn to quantitative easing, but elsewhere the macroeconomic policy locker looks bare.
  ECONOMIST: Eastern Europe’s economies: Some calm amid storms The
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