ESCAPEa situation in which you only just avoid danger, difficulties, or trouble 死里逃生,险些遇险
A woman had a narrow escape yesterday when her car left the road.
昨天一名女子驾车时冲出公路,险些丢了性命。
He was shaken by his narrow escape from death.
他死里逃生,吓得不轻。
Examples from the Corpus
narrow escape• But he has also seen the loss of life and the narrow escapes.• He was probably even now thanking his luckystars for a narrow escape.• The driverlaunches forward for a narrow escape.• They have no time for self-congratulation on their narrow escape.• It had been a narrow escape and I was impressed.• His narrow escape at Petit-Clamart finally convinced the General that it was time to take action to meet both dangers at once.• The hours of liberty are long, full of wonder and narrow escapes, precautions, hiddendevices and daring.• He is a veteran of numerous firefights and narrow escapes who has shown notable serenity throughout the siege.