a near escape

基本解释

Many people crammed into a homeless shelter to escape near-freezing temperature.
许多人挤进无家可归者的避难处，躲避让人结冰的气温。
A skier tries to escape an avalanche near Stuben am Arlberg in the Austrian Alps on Sunday.
上周日，在奥地利阿尔卑斯山阿尔伯克的史杜本附近，一个滑雪者正力图从雪崩中逃生。
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Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
看哪，这座城又小又近，容易逃到，这不是一个小的吗。求你容我逃到那里，我的性命就得存活。

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