The charge was reduced to manslaughter, and she got away with three years in prison.
罪名减轻为过失杀人,她只被判刑三年。
d)to do something without experiencing any problems or difficulties, even though it is not the best thing to do 应付过去
At school he had always got away with doing the bare minimum amount of work.
他上学的时候功课总是能不做就不做。
The colour’s not quite right, but I think you’ll get away with it.
这颜色不是很合适,不过我想你穿问题不大。
Examples from the Corpus
get away with • Munro never lets you get away with a facile, one-dimensional take.• But he's not going to get away with it wherever he is.• And, indeed, plenty of militarypersonnel are guilty of breaking maritalvows and getting away with it.• How did he imagine he was going to get away with it?• She could just get away with more.• Feeling uncertain, I asked Vidal if I could get away with such a scene.• Very few schools get away withteaching the Lord's prayer in anything other than something like the traditional way.
get away with murder• His parents let him get away with murder.• Where are these men when, as you say, there are men literally getting away with murder?• She lets those kidsget away with murder.• But the RoyalInstitution of CharteredSurveyors is angry that some other local authorities are letting agentsget away with murder.• I think the women of your time have been allowed to get away with murder.• In those days people throughout the organization often got away with murder.• Sorcerer thought he could get away with murder.• When we played them last week, the officials let Erik Williams get away with murder.• He can get away with anything, he could get away with murder and my mom would still love him.• They get away with murder because of their buying power.