A narrow escape 这个表达的本意是 “死里逃生，侥幸逃脱困境”，用在描述人成功逃离危险，避开困境的语境中。在日常生活中，这个表达也会被夸张地用来描述 “逃脱窘境”。

• The speeding car nearly hit him! What a narrow escape!
  那辆超速的汽车差点撞到他。真是死里逃生！
• As soon as I got home it started to rain outside – it was a narrow escape!
  我刚进家门就开始下雨了。真实侥幸逃过“一劫”。
• I had a narrow escape by leaving my job – the company I had just left went bankrupt!
  我离开我的工作是险些躲过一劫，因为我刚走公司就破产了。