汉英词典
MEANING OF 间不容发
间不容发
(間不容髮)
(to escape danger etc) by a hair's breadth (idiom) / in a critical state / on the brink of crisis / very close (to happening) / Taiwan pr. [jian4 bu4 rong2 fa3]
There is no room for a single hair in the gap / The metaphor is extremely close to the disaster or the situation is extremely critical
中间容不下一根头发。比喻与灾祸相距极近，情势极其危急。
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我干过体力活，时常间不容发、无家可归，我身体实在难以再承受这样的压力。 I've tried manual labor, and the stress of living within a hair's breadth of homelessness at all times made me physically ill. | ||
