They won't whittle down your salaries.

他们不会削减你们的工资。

They are trying to whittle down our salaries .

他们正着手削减我们的薪水。

I finally managed to whittle down the names on the list to only five.

我最后总算是把名单上的名字减少到了只有五个。

For example, you can whittle down your choices to just two and then flip a coin.

比如你可以将结果精简为两种，然后掷硬币。

Nowak has been busy working on how to whittle down the emergence of life into the simplest possible chemical system that he can describe mathematically.

Nowak 一直在忙着思考如何简化生命出现的过程，直至他有可能用数学描述这个最简单的化学系统。

The average American family spends several hundred dollars on clothes and supplies at the start of the new school year. Whittle down that bill with these tips.

在新学年开始的时候，普通美国家庭要花费几百美元来购买衣服和日用品。通过以下建议，尽量减少花费。