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

• 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 types were made of pieces of wood that he had whittled out with his penknife.
  活字模是木块做的，是他用削笔刀刻出来的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Inflation has whittled away their savings.
  通货膨胀蚕食了他们的积蓄。
• 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。
• He whittled a new handle for his ax
  他给斧头削了一个新把手。
• 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。