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.- He whittled a new handle for his ax...
他给斧头削了一个新把手。 - Chitty sat in his rocking-chair whittling wood.
奇蒂坐在摇椅上削着木头。
- He whittled a new handle for his ax...
双语例句
- 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。 - And if you've already whittled your TV watching down to just one or two favorite shows per week, consider exercising while you watch.
如果你已经将看电视的时间减少到每周只看一两集喜欢的节目的话,可以考虑边看电视边运动。 - 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。 - He whittled a new handle for his ax
他给斧头削了一个新把手。 - 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。 - To give the wooden beams an aged look, she whittled them down before varnishing them.
为了让木梁一岁看,她削弱他们面前上光下来。 - The capacity overhang has been quickly whittled down in major industrial sectors, they wrote in a recent report.
主要工业部门的过剩产能一直在快速减少,他们在最近的一份报告中写道。 - 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。 - British consumers have enjoyed a decade of deflation as value retailers such as Primark and supermarkets have whittled away prices, while China's emergence as a manufacturing base brought the cheap clothing that has reshaped the high street.
由于Primark等折扣零售商与超市不断削低价格,而中国崛起成为制造业基地带来了重塑大众市场的廉价服装,英国消费者享受了十年的价格下跌。 - Whittled down the debt by making small payments.
通过小额支付来削减债务。