英国脱欧公投结束近三年后，英国议会还在脱欧问题上争论不休。议员们周一再次否决了政府的备选方案：

Britain’s Parliament has spoken — and it has said no, again.

Lawmakers seeking a way out of the country’s Brexit morass rejected Monday four alternatives to the government’s unpopular European Union divorce deal that would have softened or even halted Britain’s departure.

With just 12 days until the U.K. must come up with a new plan or crash out of the bloc in chaos, the House of Commons threw out four options designed to replace Prime Minister Theresa May’s thrice-rejected Brexit deal — though in some cases by a whisker.

报道中的by a whisker就是“差一点点”的意思。例如：

I missed the last bus by a whisker.

我与最后一班公交车擦肩而过。