Larry: To dodge a bullet means to narrowly escape a very bad situation.

哦， to dodge a bullet 意思就是“逃过一劫”，躲过了非常糟糕的事情。

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"Speaking two languages isn't going to do anything to dodge the bullet" of getting Alzheimer's disease or dementia, says Ellen Bialystok, a bilingualism researcher at York University in Toronto.

美国多伦多约克大学双语研究专家Ellen Bialystok博士说，“说两种语言并不能帮助你躲避阿尔兹海默症或痴呆症的子弹”。

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Even if we manage to dodge the bullet with avian flu, there are a lot of other animal diseases which are crossing the boundary and infecting human.

即使我们能够避免禽流感造成的灾难，我们目前也还面临许多其它跨国境和能够传染人类的动物疾病。

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But with some older heads in the Greece team asserting themselves and the half time offering a chance to regroup, they managed to dodge a bullet.

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Unlike Osama bin Laden, we managed to dodge a bullet.

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This lady can take a bullet, dodge smoke monsters, sleep on the ground and manage competing male egos (think Jack and Sawyer), but gets passed over for being a parent?

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