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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

  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • 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。
  • Two and a half years just whittled down to one tiny.
    两年半的恋情最后只剩下了。
  • 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。
  • Inflation has whittled away the value of savings.
    通货膨胀降低了存款的价值。
  • To give the wooden beams an aged look, she whittled them down before varnishing them.
    为了让木梁一岁看,她削弱他们面前上光下来。
  • We've whittled down a mass of evidence and produced two clear leads.
    我们清理了一大堆证据,理出了两个清晰的线索。