They got off scot-free because of lack of evidence.
由于证据不足，他们得以逍遥法外。
1.免予支付;未受损害,未受惩罚
1.without punishment being exacted or payment being made
1.Without the evidence Lonsdale and his associates could have got off either scot-free or with a minor sentence.
如果没有这种证据，朗斯代尔和他的同伙就会无罪开释，或判刑极轻。
2.Don't worry, the police won't arrest you because you said something unusual. Truth is on your side. you'll come out scot-free.
别担心，警察不会因为你说了几句出格的话就来抓你的，真理在你一边，你不会有事的。
3.Under today's product-liability law, the motorist would doubtless get off scot-free, even if the accident was his fault.
还是系统工程师？（在现行产品责任法下，司机当然不会承担责任，即使事故就是他的过错。）
4.In this robbery, the value several million pounds cashes and the jewelry are looted, the criminal offender gets off scot-free until now.
在此次劫案中，价值数百万英镑的现金和珠宝被洗劫，犯罪分子至今逍遥法外。
5.Indeed, people will probably conclude that Project Merlin has allowed bankers to escape scot-free.
实际上，人们可能会得出结论：梅林项目让银行家得以免于受罚。
6.On-duty officers responsible for killings almost always get off scot-free.
负责谋杀案的长官们几乎总是逍遥法外。
7.However, due to the limitation of the study, men "don't get off scot-free either. "
当然，由于调查的范围有限，这个结果并不能说明男人就可以“置之度外”。
8.But he escaped and got off scot-free.
不过，他逃之夭夭，没有受到惩罚。
9.The accused got escaped scot-free because of lack of evidence.
由于证据不足，被告未受惩罚。
10.He brushes aside all concepts of what is morally evil, thinking that he can go scot-free by doing so.
他漠视所有道德上邪恶的观念，认为这样做，他可以免受惩罚。