hairsbreadth
['hɛəzbredθ]
n. 狭窄的空间, 极小的距离(=hairbreadth)
adj. 极狭的
例句与用法:
These people who were young fifty years back are now gray haired.
50年前的年轻人,现在已经白发苍苍了。
Covered with short hairs or soft down.
被有短毛或柔软绒毛的
Mary is always splitting hairs, so all of us don't like her.
玛丽总是吹毛求疵,因此我们都不喜欢她。
I don't like that fashion the men used to have of slicking their hairs down.
我不喜欢过去男士们将头发弄得油光水滑的式样。
The arch of short hairs covering this ridge.
眉毛覆盖于眉上的拱状短毛
词形变化:
异体字: hair's-breadth |
n.
间不容发, 千钧一发
hairsbreadthhairsbreadthadj.1.■极狭的,窄如发丝的
hairsbreadth['hεəzbredθ]adj., n.1.■= hairbreadth[亦作hair's-breadth]
hairsbreadth
■He missed the target by a hairsbreadth, hair's breadth.
他以丝毫之差未射中靶。
■He says that systems that are most adaptive are so loose they are a hairsbreadth away from being out of control.
他说最具适应性的系统极其松散,以致于濒临失控。
■Already, sellers ranging from foreign investors to local companies have driven the ruble to within a hairsbreadth of the central bank's new limit, announced just two weeks ago.
包括海外投资者和本地企业在内的卖家已经将卢布推低到距俄罗斯央行两周前设定的最新下限仅一步之遥的水平。
■that's our forten, after all. hairsbreadth escapes. overwhelming odds.
毕竟,这是我们的长处,,压倒性的优势。
■As though the money could give her one hairsbreadth of happiness, of peace of soul.
这些钱的确可以给她增添一丁点儿幸福和心灵上的安慰吗?
■won by a hairsbreadth.
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