"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.
双语例句
1. Unemployment is now a whisker away from three million.
现在的失业人数已接近300万。
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2. You escaped serious injury by a whisker, so consider yourselves very lucky.
你差一点就受重伤, 你应该觉得自己很幸运.
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3. He missed the first prize by a whisker.
他和头奖擦肩而过.
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4. They came within a whisker of being killed.
他们险些丟了性命.
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5. A new pet census showed that cats now outnumber dogs by a whisker (7 million to 6.9 million).
