- 1以些微票數險勝（的）
In an election, a razor-thin victory means you did win — but only just. The gap is tiny: a few hundred votes, sometimes even a handful. Picture the edge of a razor: it is so thin you can barely see it. That is the picture in the word. News writers love it on election night. They also say a razor-thin lead or a razor-thin majority, still about votes and seats. It sounds as if the win might not be real, because one small change could have flipped the result. Though actually, a razor-thin win still counts. The person still gets the job.
From the word’s history
First use c. 1909, in the Washington Post.
約 1909 年首見於《華盛頓郵報》。
組成razor (the thin sharp blade people shave with) + thin. Writers have used it since about 1909; an early example is in the Washington Post.
同家族的字
- razorthe first half: the thin sharp blade you shave with
- razor-sharpsame razor- picture, but for something extremely sharp instead of an extremely small gap
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
razor-thinadj
- 1
Extremely fine; so thin as to be almost invisible.
- 2
A very small difference, or advantage, when comparing two items.
- The Socialists have a razor-thin majority.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。