To see a boy go into a grocery store at noon recess was a hairbreadth short of a miracle to me. 看到男生在午休时去杂货店…对我来说简直是个奇迹。
Hairbreadth \Hair"breadth`\ (-br[e^]dth), Hair's breadth \Hair's" breadth`\ (h[^a]rz"-). The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch. [Also spelled {hairsbreadth}.]
Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss. --Judg. xx. 16.
Hairbreadth \Hair"breadth`\, a. Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape.
At this hastily called summit Mr. Reagan came within a hairbreadth of winning agreement to a long-held dream of eliminating all nuclear weapons.
That debate, first of four, gave Kennedy a lasting lift and he won a hairbreadth election.
For the most part, though, his ripostes hit home and he has several marvelous explanations for personal calamities and hairbreadth escapes.