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

• 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。
• The pencil has been whittled away to a mere stump.
  铅笔已削的只剩下一个笔头了。
• 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。
• 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。
• One of his legs was gone at the knee and to the stump was fitted a roughly whittled wooden peg.
  他有一条腿被平膝截掉了，马马虎虎地装上了一段木头。
• Inflation has whittled away the value of savings.
  通货膨胀降低了存款的价值。
• 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。
• 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。
• This year China whittled down its list of crimes punishable by death.
  今年，中国也减少了死刑名单上的人数。
• Inflation has whittled away their savings.
  通货膨胀蚕食了他们的积蓄。