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
- We then whittled it down to just a phone conversation, and that was turned down, too.
我们然后只能把这段感情缩减到一个电话,但是最后连电话都取消了。 - And if you've already whittled your TV watching down to just one or two favorite shows per week, consider exercising while you watch.
如果你已经将看电视的时间减少到每周只看一两集喜欢的节目的话,可以考虑边看电视边运动。 - I've whittled the shortlist down to six.
我已把候选人名单削减为六人。 - 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。 - They whittled down the enemy's military and economic strength in a war of attrition.
他们通过消耗战削弱敌人的军事和经济力量。 - Before he knows it, he has whittled his stick down to a toothpick, which snaps in his hands.
他不知不觉把那块木头削得像牙签一样细,在他的手中折断了。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。