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

• Inflation has whittled away their savings.
  通货膨胀蚕食了他们的积蓄。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Governments have whittled down the budget on subsidizing individual artists.
  政府逐渐减少了资助艺术家的预算。
• Two and a half years just whittled down to one tiny.
  两年半的恋情最后只剩下了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The pencil has been whittled away to a mere stump.
  铅笔已削的只剩下一个笔头了。