第一，迷你對(duì)話

A: Did Roll win the race?

Roll跑步比賽贏了嗎？

B: Yeah, he did. But he only won it by a hair's breadth.

是的，他贏了，他僅以微乎其微的距離領(lǐng)先。

A: But anyway, he won at last.

但是不管怎么樣，他最終贏了。

B: Yeah. To win is the most important thing.

是啊，獲勝是最重要的事情。

第二，地道表達(dá)

a hair's breadth

1. 解詞釋義

A hair's breadth的意思是“一發(fā)之差”“極微小的距離”。它可以和介詞by或者to搭配使用。By a hair's breadth是指“險(xiǎn)些兒”“間不容發(fā)地”。To a hair's breadth是指“精確地”“一毫不差地”。

2. 拓展范例

E.g. She was within a hair's breadth of winning.

她差一點(diǎn)就贏了。

E.g. After wandering around the forest for an hour thinking we were lost, it turned out that we were only a hair's breadth away from our campsite.

在森林里徘徊了一個(gè)小時(shí)，我們以為迷路了，原來我們離露營(yíng)地只有一發(fā)之遙。

E.g. The seal is air-tight—there's not a hair's breadth between the door and the frame.

門框之間沒有一根頭發(fā)的長(zhǎng)度。

E.g. The situation was a hair's breadth away from being comical.

這種情況離滑稽只有咫尺之遙。

E.g. The town suffered heavy bombing, coming within a hair's breadth of being destroyed altogether.

該鎮(zhèn)遭到了猛烈轟炸，幾乎完全被摧毀。

第三，視野拓展

at last：最后

E.g. After a long dispute, he at last made a concession to me.

經(jīng)過長(zhǎng)時(shí)間的爭(zhēng)論，他終于對(duì)我讓步。

E.g. She became at last an inevitable figure at all respectable entertainments.

她后來終于成為各種體面集會(huì)上不可缺少的人物。