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whittle
时间: 2025-07-21 02:51:58
英 [ˈwɪtl]

vt.(尤指用刀)切,削(木头、棍子等);削;刨;削减;削弱;磨损;

vi.(尤指用刀)切,削;不断抱怨;持续担心;

n.刀;(尤指)大刀

双语例句
  • I finally managed to whittle down the names on the list to only five.

    我最后总算把名单上的名字减少到了只有五个。

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  • They won't whittle down your salaries.

    他们不会削减你们的工资。

  • Whittle a toy boat.

    一个手工削成的玩具船。

  • They are trying to whittle down our salaries.

    他们正着手削减我们的薪水。

  • Whittle down the debt by making small payments.

    通过小额支付来削减债务。

  • Sarah Whittle: a little rain never hurt anybody!

    莎拉:一点小雨是不可能伤到人的!

  • "We are actually seeing the sound waves," Whittle said.

    “我们确实看到了声波,”惠特尔说。

  • Make this plug smaller for me, but don 't whittle away too much.

    帮我把这个塞子弄小一点,但木头不要削掉太多。

  • Whittle will tell you that his project breaks no new scientific ground.

    惠特尔将告诉你,他的项目不会有背新的科学基础。

  • Do you constantly whittle away at a problem, trying to find a solution?

    是否会坚持不懈地寻找方法逐步解决问题?

  • Sarah Whittle: You did just see three monkeys go by on a motorcycle; right?

    莎拉:你刚才正好看见一辆摩托车上有三头驴,是吧?

  • "By listening to the universe, you can figure out its structure," Whittle said.

    “通过倾听,你能够判断宇宙的结构,”惠特尔说。

  • Mr Selten's work let economists whittle down the number of possible Nash equilibria.

    泽尔腾的研究让经济学家减少了可能的纳什均衡的数量。

  • Lasers then cut through the material to whittle it down and create the desired shape.

    激光器然后通过材料切割以削减下来,并创建所需的形状。

  • Sarah Whittle: they grow much faster than bamboo. Take care or they'll come after you.

    莎拉:他们长得比竹子还要快。小心哦要不然他们会追上你的。

  • This USES a succession of cues to whittle away the alternatives until only one remains.

    这一方法使用一连串线索来逐渐减少排除选项,直到最后只剩下一个选项。

  • The shrinking of the labour force will whittle away at potential growth, consuming the means to pay for it.

    劳动力规模的缩减将削弱发展潜力,堵塞还债通道。

  • It has no official status yet, and must be formally approved before negotiators can start to whittle it down.

    该份草案尚不具备官方地位,并且在谈判开始之前,文本的削减必须获得正式批准。

  • Whittle has come up with a soundtrack to the birth of the cosmos-and it doesn't sound anything like a bang.

    惠特尔为宇宙诞生进行了配乐——它听起来一点也不象爆炸声。

  • The brain tissue analyzed by Dr. Grant's team was extracted by a surgeon, Ian Whittle of Edinburgh University.

    格兰特小组分析的脑组织是从爱丁堡大学的外科医师伊恩·维特处拿来的。

  • That is presumably why the KPK's powers are under threat from the parliament, which may yet whittle them away.

    议会一直想把KPK赶走,外界推测kpk的权力仍然受到议会的威胁。

  • Leeds Crown Court was told Whittle wrote offensive articles that were then published on the Internet by Sheppard.

    利兹刑事法庭被告知维特撰写了攻击性文章,然后由斯帕得在因特网上发布。

  • While users can whittle apps down to broad categories, such as games, they can't sort by rating or recently added.

    用户查看应用的目录时,例如游戏,无法按等级或更新时间来排序。

  • “Once you get very large, the cost of implementing decisions starts to whittle away your advantage,” says Mr Wightman.

    Wightman先生说“一旦你的规模过大,执行决定的成本开始削弱你的优势”。

  • But if you looked at them and said, "I want to reach the top five in online music," you can whittle down the list.

    但是,如果你看着他们说:“我想达到的五大在线音乐”,这意味着您可以削减名单了。

  • Write out the complete story, he advises, and then whittle it down to a series of concise descriptive bullet points.

    他建议,写出整个故事,然后再浓缩为一系列简明扼要的叙述。

  • A junior HR officer will typically whittle these down to along list, spending no more than 15 seconds examining each CV.

    人力资源部门的低级员工通常会精减出一份初选名单,他们阅读每份简历的时间不超过15秒。

短语搭配
  • whittle down

    v. 削减,削弱

近义词
vt. 削;削减;切;削弱
n. 屠刀