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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I've whittled the shortlist down to six.
  我已把候选人名单削减为六人。
• Governments have whittled down the budget on subsidizing individual artists.
  政府逐渐减少了资助艺术家的预算。
• Reuters reported earlier yesterday that the final shortlist has been whittled down to eight.
  路透社（Reuters）昨日早些时候报道称，最终入围名单已被减至8家。
• Before he knows it, he has whittled his stick down to a toothpick, which snaps in his hands.
  他不知不觉把那块木头削得像牙签一样细，在他的手中折断了。
• 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。
• Japanese inventories are being whittled back, shaving 0.3 percentage points off growth.
  日本正在大举削减库存减少了0.3个百分点的增幅。
• Rainwear became so important to Burberry that the company soon whittled its lines down to little more than trench coats and tailored menswear for much of the20th century.
  防水衣对巴宝莉变得尤为重要，公司很快便削减了生产线，在20世纪的大部分时间里，几乎只生产风衣和定制男装。