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基本英英搭配近义反义例句例句
v.削木头;削减¹⁰⁰原型whittle的过去式和过去分词名词whittler过去分词whittled现在分词whittling三单whittles
Noun:
English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine 1907-1996
Verb:
cut small bits or pare shavings from;whittle a piece of wood whittle down削减whittle away切削
近义词 cut切shave刮pare削减carve雕刻shape形状sculpt雕刻fashion时尚abridge删节curtail缩减
动词87%,名词13%
用作动词Don'twhittlethe stick into a short one.别把木棍削成短的棍。
They are trying towhittledown our salaries.他们正著手削减我们的薪水。
Furthermore, with the equity markets still in turmoil, Freescale may not be able in the near future towhittledown its debts by selling shares to the public.更糟糕的是，资本市场仍然一片混乱，飞思卡尔在近期通过出售股票来削减债务压力的可能性也不大。 First, the tip of the tusk was severed with a chopping tool; then the contours of the animals were whittled with a stone knife and scraper.
首先用砍砸器将这象牙尖从象牙上砍断；然后用石头刀与石刮刀将动物的轮廓削出来。 yeeyan
That belief was rooted in his frequent plastic surgeries, which whittled his nose from a broad frame to an almost impossibly narrow bridge.
由于他频繁的接受整形手术，将鼻子从宽削窄，人们对此更加深信不疑。 i21st
Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them, trying our knives, and admiring the clear yellowish grain of the pumpkin pine.
各自谈出自己的思想，好像把木片都晒干那样，我们坐下来，把它们削尖，试试我们的刀子，欣赏着那些松木的光亮的纹理。 blog.sina.com.cn
He has whittled down the list of people from30 to16.
他已将人名单从30名削减到16名。《21世纪大英汉词典》
In fact, better than that, this guy is already sorted as well because I whittled that problem down to size1.
事实上，更好的结果是这个杯子也是有序的了,因为我已将这个问题的规模削减到只有1个元素。163
Once we had whittled down the required reviewer list, we could afford to give each respondent one-on-one attention.
一旦我们减少了所需的复审员名单，我们会注意到每个复审员的反馈。 ibm
Others in Washington and throughout Asia can only hope that too much U.S. leverage on China is not whittled away in the meantime.
华盛顿的其他人以及那些亚洲国家，就只能希望美国对中国的平衡不会一起被过度削弱。 yeeyan
Reports of defections suggest that the regime is being whittled away. The latest renegades included17 footballers.
那些对叛变者的报导是卡扎菲政权正在不断消减的最好证明，最近的叛变者包括17名足球队员。 ecocn
Reports of defections suggest that the regime is being whittled away.
关于叛变的报道显示，这个政权正在分崩离析。 ecocn
Since competition from non- human workers had whittled away his family's fortune on Chommell Minor before he was even born, Janus Greejatus had a deeply ingrained hatred for aliens.
早在贾纳斯·格里贾特斯出生前，他家在小乔梅尔星球的财富就已被非人类工人蚕食殆尽，因此，他对异族人有着根深蒂固的仇恨。 starwarsfans.cn
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。 tianya
The government's majority has been whittled down to eight.
政府多数票减少到了八票。 pkwall
The stick has been whittled down to a sharp point.
这根木棍被削成了尖头。《21世纪大英汉词典》
The number can be whittled down.
这个数字还可以再减少一些。 ecocn
The research has taken six years, involved nine research institutes, and examined more than half a million publications—which were whittled down to 7,000 relevant ones.
这一研究有九家研究机构共同进行了六年时间，共浏览了多于五十万份出版物，从中选出了相关的七千份进行研究。 ecocn
They are expected to promise to restrain themselves from raising the trade barriers that have been whittled away over decades of tortuous multilateral negotiations.
人们希望他们限制自己提高贸易壁垒在过去几十年曲折的多边谈判中，贸易壁垒已逐渐去除。 ecocn
They screened these by assuming that a taste receptor would only be found in a small number of tissue types specifically tongue taste cells. That whittled the list down to900.
他们通过假设味觉受体应该只在很少种类的组织特别是舌味觉细胞中被发现，把名单缩减到900个。 dxy
They can be whittled down further.
它们也许会被进一步削弱。 yeeyan |