whisker [ˈhwɪskɚ, ˈwɪs-]

例句:

• Unemployment is now a whisker away from three million.
  现在的失业人数已接近300万。
  
• A shaggy fellow...with a good deal of hair and whisker.
  来自Dickens
• 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.
  
• He missed the first prize by a whisker.
  他和头奖擦肩而过.
  
• Ultimately, he won Florida by a whisker.
  来自WSJ
• First the US electorate, by a whisker, re-elected Barack Obama.
  来自THETIMES