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

• Once we had whittled down the required reviewer list, we could afford to give each respondent one-on-one attention.
  一旦我们减少了所需的复审员名单，我们会注意到每个复审员的反馈。
• 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 pencil has been whittled away to a mere stump.
  铅笔已削的只剩下一个笔头了。
• Sunday's results came on the heels of a Saturday release indicating that years of war had whittled away at Americans'support for the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  紧跟在星期六民调结果之后的星期天民调结果，显示了长达几年时间的战争已经极大的削弱了美国民众对伊拉克战争和阿富汗战争的支持度。
• Whittled down the debt by making small payments.
  通过小额支付来削减债务。
• 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。
• The capacity overhang has been quickly whittled down in major industrial sectors, they wrote in a recent report.
  主要工业部门的过剩产能一直在快速减少，他们在最近的一份报告中写道。
• Two and a half years just whittled down to one tiny.
  两年半的恋情最后只剩下了。
• 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。
• 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。