whittle down

基本解释

• v. 削减，削弱

同根派生

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英汉例句

双语例句

• Other ways to whittle down banks are thinkable.
  另外一些削减银行的办法是值得考虑的。
• One of the central intellectual projects in The Constitution of Liberty is the Humean one to use reason to whittle down the claims of Reason.
  《自由秩序原理》中的核心内容之一也是休谟使用的原因之一去削弱理性的主张。
• They are trying to whittle down our salaries .
  他们正着手削减我们的薪水。

原声例句

• We transition to actually real world applications later on like a compression-- how do you take a huge amount of data ; and actually whittle it down into something more manageable; something that uses less of your disk space.
  然后我们会讲生活中的应用程序,比方说压缩文件——,把大量的数据分解使其更易管理;,并占用尽量少的磁盘空间。
  哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

权威例句

• The new regulations will whittle down the list of approved manufacturers to ten for 2003.
  FORBES: Magazine Article
• It too incarcerated its contestants and obliged them to whittle down their own numbers.
  ECONOMIST: We love you, Big Brother
• The opposition's best hope in the next election may be to whittle down his majority.
  ECONOMIST: The verdict on Malaysia

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词组短语

短语

• whittle e down 消减
• whittle down to size 大事化小
• to whittle down 消磨
• whittle the field down 逐渐减少
• whittle down expense 削减费用

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