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迷你對話：

A: Where are you going?

你去哪？

B: I’m going to the hospital.

我到醫(yī)院去。

A: What’s the matter?

怎么啦？

B: Professor Wang was hurt in a traffic accident.

王教授遇到車禍。

A: That’s too bad. How are things going now?

真糟糕，現(xiàn)在請將如何？

B: His life is hanging by a thread, and he is under an emergency treatment.

他生命垂危，在搶救之中。

地道表達(dá)：

hang by a thread

解詞釋義：

hand是動詞，意思是“懸掛，掉”，thread是名詞，意思是“線”，hang by a thread意思就是“用一根線懸掛著”，相當(dāng)于中文中的“千鈞一發(fā)”，同樣也可以理解為“危在旦夕”。

拓展講解：

hang by a hair與上述習(xí)語同意。短語中的by a hair是一個短語，它的意思是“一點點，一點兒”。

支持范例：

（1）hang by a thread

Eg. The fire was approaching people's houses. people's lives and properties hang by a thread.

大火向民房逼近，人民的生命財產(chǎn)危在旦夕。

Eg. For some time after he dangerous operation, Keren's life hang by a thread.

在她作了有危險的手術(shù)后的一段時間時凱倫的生命處于垂危之中。

（2） hang by a hair

Eg. As his health deteriorates, he seems to hang by a hair of regaining his strength .

因為他的健康每下愈況，他似乎很難恢復(fù)精力。

Eg. As Jack's car ran into a truck his life hung by a hair.

杰克的車撞上卡車時,他的生命危在旦夕。

（3）by a hair

Eg. He escaped death by a hair's breadth. If the other car had been going any faster, he would certainly have been killed.

他簡直是死里逃生. 要是那輛車開得再快一點, 他肯定被撞死了。

Eg. The bullet missed me by a hair's s breadth.

那顆子彈差一點就打中了我。

Eg. She won by a hair, while I lost the game by a hair.

她以微弱的優(yōu)勢獲勝，可是我以微末的差距輸了。

詞海拾貝：

1. in a traffic accident：在車禍中

Eg. When she heard that her husband had been killed in a traffic accident she went haywire with grief.

當(dāng)她聽說她丈夫在交通事故中身亡的消息時，她悲痛得精神失常。

Eg. Remember that you or I could drop dead from a heart attack or be killed in a traffic accident tomorrow.

要知道，你我都有可能明天因心臟病發(fā)作而暴卒，或者因交通事故而喪生。

2. under an emergency treatment：在急救中

Eg. Early in the morning he felt an acute pain in the belly and his parents had to send him to hospital and now he is under an emergency treatment.

大清早他感到腹部一陣劇痛，父母不得不送他去醫(yī)院，現(xiàn)在在急救之中。

3. under treatment：在治療中

Eg. The woman injured in the car crash is still under treatment in hospital.

在撞車事故中受傷的女士們婦女現(xiàn)在還在醫(yī)院里接受治療。

Eg. She is under good treatment in the hospital.

她在醫(yī)院里正在接受很好的治療。