whittled
英 [ˈwɪtld]
美 [ˈwɪtld]
v. 把(木头等)削成…
whittle的过去分词和过去式
过去式:whittled
柯林斯词典
- VERB 削(木头等)
If youwhittlesomething from a piece of wood, you carve it by cutting pieces off the wood with a knife.- He whittled a new handle for his ax...
他给斧头削了一个新把手。 - Chitty sat in his rocking-chair whittling wood.
奇蒂坐在摇椅上削着木头。
- He whittled a new handle for his ax...
双语例句
- British consumers have enjoyed a decade of deflation as value retailers such as Primark and supermarkets have whittled away prices, while China's emergence as a manufacturing base brought the cheap clothing that has reshaped the high street.
由于Primark等折扣零售商与超市不断削低价格,而中国崛起成为制造业基地带来了重塑大众市场的廉价服装,英国消费者享受了十年的价格下跌。 - Japanese inventories are being whittled back, shaving 0.3 percentage points off growth.
日本正在大举削减库存减少了0.3个百分点的增幅。 - He whittled a new handle for his ax
他给斧头削了一个新把手。 - Governments have whittled down the budget on subsidizing individual artists.
政府逐渐减少了资助艺术家的预算。 - By September, they will have whittled the list down to a winner
9月之前他们会从名单中确定出最后的赢家。 - By half time Argentina had whittled the gap down to one goal.
到半场结束时,阿根廷队已将差距缩小到了一球。 - The collaborators whittled these down to the 27 biggest events, so that there would be no ambiguity.
科研人员们把这些归纳为27中影响最大的事件,因此也就不会出现不明确的地方。 - So we've now whittled this problem down into half and so we can literally and dramatically throw half of the problem away.
如此一来,我们就把这个问题简化了一半,我们可以大胆的扔掉另一半。 - The types were made of pieces of wood that he had whittled out with his penknife.
活字模是木块做的,是他用削笔刀刻出来的。 - Rainwear became so important to Burberry that the company soon whittled its lines down to little more than trench coats and tailored menswear for much of the20th century.
防水衣对巴宝莉变得尤为重要,公司很快便削减了生产线,在20世纪的大部分时间里,几乎只生产风衣和定制男装。