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
- 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。