He tried to escape by diving into a river.

他企图跳入河中逃走。

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He tried to escape by bribing the guard.

他企图贿赂警卫来逃走。

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She tried to escape by marrying at 15, at her mother's urging.

她想赶快找个好人家以摆脱现状，母亲也催促她嫁人，于是她15岁就结婚了。

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He said the slaves of the South would escape by the thousands to freedom in the North.

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In the first speech of the Apology, he defies the city to put him to death by expressing indifference to death and then in the Crito, he very much expresses that indifference to death by refusing to allow Crito to let him escape.

苏格拉底自辩篇》的第一场申辩中，他抗拒城邦处他死刑,理由是他根本漠视死亡,但之后在《克里托篇》,他表述漠视死亡的方式,变成拒绝让克里托助他逃亡。

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He made an unsuccessful attempt to escape by jumping into the ocean.

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Dowdy's past also includes time in prison for seven felony convictions on charges including burglary, grand larceny, auto theft, escape by force and bodily injury to a correctional officer.

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He was helped to escape by his mother.

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