• n. [晶體] 晶須；胡須；腮須

來自whisk，攪動，用于貓等動物的觸須。

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.

現在的失業人數已接近300萬。

來自柯林斯例句

2. You escaped serious injury by a whisker, so consider yourselves very lucky.

你差一點就受重傷, 你應該覺得自己很幸運.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. He missed the first prize by a whisker.

他和頭獎擦肩而過.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. They came within a whisker of being killed.

他們險些丟了性命.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. A new pet census showed that cats now outnumber dogs by a whisker (7 million to 6.9 million).

新的寵物普查顯示出貓的數量略微超過了狗的數量（700萬比690萬）。

來自柯林斯例句