whisker

英 [ˈwɪs.kər]      美 [ˈwɪs.kɚ]
  • n. [晶体] 晶须;胡须;腮须
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1. whisk => whisker.
whisker 触须

来自whisk,搅动,用于猫等动物的触须。

whisker (n.)
"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.
1. Unemployment is now a whisker away from three million.
现在的失业人数已接近300万。
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.
3. He missed the first prize by a whisker.
他和头奖擦肩而过.
4. They came within a whisker of being killed.
他们险些丟了性命.
5. A new pet census showed that cats now outnumber dogs by a whisker (7 million to 6.9 million).
新的宠物普查显示出猫的数量略微超过了狗的数量(700万比690万)。

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