a free ride

基本解釋

In the past, the homeless were offered a free ride to one of the city’s warehouse-like shelters.
在過(guò)去，有免費(fèi)的車(chē)輛把無(wú)家可歸者送到城市里類(lèi)似倉(cāng)庫(kù)的避難所。
Hackers view this "feature" as a free ride on the XMLmobile, waving at the firewall sentries as they happily pass by.
黑客將這種“特性”看作 XML 提供的免費(fèi)服務(wù)，他們可以利用這種特性輕松地通過(guò)防火墻。
And perhaps more importantly, nobody is really getting a free ride – at least in principle.
或許更重要的是，雙方都付出了代價(jià)，沒(méi)人可以免費(fèi)搭便車(chē)——至少在原則上是這樣。

He had a free ride while the rest of us struggled to make ends meet.
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an opportunity or advantage that someone gets without having done anything to deserve it