Inch by inch, the trunk slid through the window.

箱子一点儿一点儿地朝窗外滑动。

They missed the dark stone wall by inches as the car turned in a great arc, soaring over the dark greenhouses, then the vegetable patch, and then out over the black lawns, losing height all the time.

汽车拐了一个大圆弧，擦墙而过，飞过黑暗的温室、菜地，飞到外面黑色的草坪上方，一直在坠落。

And three: Step by step, inch by inch, you moved closer to your objective until you attained it.

第三，慢慢地你离你的来近，直到你把它握在手里。

And their prediction is that if the current rate of ice melt continues, sea levels could rise 6 inches by the year 2100.

他们预测，如果前的冰雪消融速度持续下去，到 2100 年，海平面可能会上升 6 英寸。

For seven years, workers have been moving inch by inch, town by town, digging out layers of poisonous waste, dropping it into plastic bags, and storing it at temporary sites.

七年来，工人们一寸一寸，一个城镇一个城镇地移动，挖掘出一层层的有毒废物，将其放入塑料袋，并将其储在临时地点。

The big truck missed the cow by inches.

那辆大卡车差一点撞到一头牛。

And it missed our car by inches.

差几英寸我们就撞上了。

But the trees flew by at deadly speeds, always missing us by inches.

但那些树在用一种致命的速度飞快地向后退去，通常离我们只有几英寸远。

George passed to Angelina; she reverse-passed to Harry, who had not been expecting it, but caught it in the very tips of his fingers and passed it quickly to Ron, who lunged for it and missed by inches.

乔治把球了安吉利娜，安吉利娜回手了哈利，哈利没想到会自己，但还是用手指尖把球接住了，飞快地罗恩，罗恩扑过去接球，差几英寸没接住。

Literally inch by inch because that we are talking about half-an-hour rails here, tapes that would play for half an hour, which will give you 2500 feet I think in total.

这些录音带能播放长达半小时，我估计总共应该有2500英尺（762米）长，所以真的要一点一点地清理。

Converse mastered the art of sparseness, relying on her ability to create a tiny chamber in which all that could survive is a voice and the pinpricks of a guitar's strings, moving along inch by inch.

康维斯掌握了“稀缺”的艺术，依靠她的能力创造了一个狭小的空间，在这个空间里，所有能生的只有声音和吉他琴弦的针刺，一寸一寸地向前移动。

As Laszlo puts it: " If they had seen the painfully slow progress, the inch by inch improvements, they would not have been so quick to call Susan a prodigy."

“如果他们看到了那痛苦而缓慢的进步过程，看到了一点一滴的改进，他们就不会那么轻易地称苏珊为神童了。”

Six of the Death Eaters ran toward them: Harry, Ron and Hermione backed as quickly as possible down the nearest side street, and the Death Eaters missed them by inches.

六个食死徒向他们跑过来，差点抓住他们。哈利、罗恩和赫敏用他们最快的速度退到最近的巷子里。

Up in the air, Snape turned on his broomstick just in time to see something scarlet shoot past him, missing him by inches.

在空中，斯内普转动他的飞天扫帚，刚刚来得及看见一个深红色的东西‘嗖’地从他耳边飞过，离他只差几英寸。

But every time that he did this, the pain would slowly go down inch by inch and he would feel just a little bit better.

但每当他这样做的时候，痛苦就会慢慢地一点点减轻，他就会觉得好一点。

And their prediction is that if the current rate of ice melt continues, sea levels could rise six inches by the year 2100.

他们预测，如果融冰速度照这样持续下去，到2100年，海平面将上升六英寸。

The storm dumped 8.7 inches of rain on parts of Nevada by Monday, breaking the state's heaviest rainfall record in 116 years.

截至周一，内华达州部分地区降雨量达到了 220 毫米，打破了该州 116 年来的最大降雨记录。

Any progress even incremental will be welcom in Kiev, where officials have spoken of fighting inch by inch to liberate compatriots.

任何进展，哪怕是渐进的，在基辅看来都是受欢迎的，那里的官员们谈到了为解放同胞而一步一步地战斗。

Each day for the past year, you have, inch by inch, slice by slice, brought me closer to being a eunuch.

去年的每一天，你一点一点、一步一步的把我变成了太监。

How much dirt is in a hole that measures two inches by three inches by four inches?

一个2英寸乘3英寸乘4英寸的洞里有多少土？