That target was suspended during the financial crisis , but in the second quarter of this year the company came within a whisker of achieving it .
这个目标在金融危机中被暂停搁置,但在今年第二季度,公司出现了完成这一目标的点点迹象。
The first sentence of the massachusetts guidelines for grassroots lobbyists is but a whisker shorter than the gettysburg address and comprehensible only to a lawyer .
马萨诸塞州群众游说人准则开篇第一句就比整篇葛底斯堡演说短一点,只有律师才看得懂。
As for running the state department , no woman who came within a whisker of being president was likely to leave the behemoth at foggy bottom unreformed .