a near escape

基本解释

Many people crammed into a homeless shelter to escape near-freezing temperature.
許多人擠進無家可歸者的避難処，躲避讓人結冰的氣溫。
A skier tries to escape an avalanche near Stuben am Arlberg in the Austrian Alps on Sunday.
上周日，在奧地利阿爾卑斯山阿爾伯尅的史杜本附近，一個滑雪者正力圖從雪崩中逃生。
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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，這座城又小又近，容易逃到，這不是一個小的嗎。求你容我逃到那裡，我的性命就得存活。

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