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

• 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。
• 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。
• I've whittled the shortlist down to six.
  我已把候选人名单削减为六人。
• Whittled down the debt by making small payments.
  通过小额支付来削减债务。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。