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whittled down短语⁶⁵²⁹²
基本例句
v.切；削；削减
An original list of177 monuments was whittled down to21 by a panel of architectural experts, chaired by a former boss of UNESCO.
在以联合国教科文组织前总干事为首的一批建筑专家的参与下，原始名单中的177个遗迹被精简到了21个。 ecocn
Congress has whittled down the president’s budget request for a further$400m to$100m.
国会已经把总统进一步的拨款预算从4亿美元削减至1亿美元。 ecocn
Food safety, like toy safety, is part of a growing national concern that government agencies that are supposed to protect consumers have been whittled down to incompetence.
食品安全如同玩具安全一样，是美国全国越来越关心的事情，都认为国家机构应该保护消费者，可是其功能已大大减弱，直至无能为力。 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》
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
Struggling Sanyo had been whittled down by three banks that had bailed it out three years earlier including a foreign one, Goldman Sachs.
当时正艰难挣扎的三洋已被三年前给与其紧急援助的三家银行其中包括国外的高盛所拖累。 ecocn
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 entries will be whittled down to50 and will be displayed on Ctrip, Dale says, with voting to begin in a few weeks.
Dale说，最后的入围者将有50个人，他们的照片将会被展示在携程网上，投票将在几周内开始。 yeeyan
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 can be whittled down further.
它们也许会被进一步削弱。 yeeyan
Years of skirmishing with the inexhaustible resources of the Dominion has whittled down Raynor's forces to a shadow of their former selves.
数年的交战中，帝国无尽的资源使得雷诺的势力缩小到了原来的数百分之一。200008 |