"hair of a man's face" (usually plural), c. 1600, originally a playful formation, from Middle English wisker "anything that whisks or sweeps" (early 15c.), agent noun from whisk (v.). In reference to animal lip hair, recorded from 1670s. Related: Whiskered; whiskers.
雙語例句
1. Unemployment is now a whisker away from three million.
現(xiàn)在的失業(yè)人數(shù)已接近300萬。
來自柯林斯例句
2. You escaped serious injury by a whisker, so consider yourselves very lucky.
你差一點(diǎn)就受重傷, 你應(yīng)該覺得自己很幸運(yùn).
來自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
3. He missed the first prize by a whisker.
他和頭獎(jiǎng)擦肩而過.
來自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
4. They came within a whisker of being killed.
他們險(xiǎn)些丟了性命.
來自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
5. A new pet census showed that cats now outnumber dogs by a whisker (7 million to 6.9 million).