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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.
    1. He whittled a new handle for his ax...
      他给斧头削了一个新把手。
    2. Chitty sat in his rocking-chair whittling wood.
      奇蒂坐在摇椅上削着木头。

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。