V-T If you whittle something from a piece of wood, you carve it by cutting pieces off the wood with a knife. 削 (木头)
He whittled a new handle for his ax.
他为自己的斧头削了一个新斧柄。
He whittled a new handle for his ax.
他为自己的斧头削了一个新斧柄。
He whittled a simple toy from the piece of wood.
他把那块木头削成了一个简易的玩具。
He whittled the piece of wood into a simple toy.
他把那块木头削成了一个简易的玩具。
The 64 teams in the tournament are whittled down to the so-called "Sweet-16,"
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So we've now whittled this problem down into half and so we can literally and dramatically throw half of the problem away.
如此一来,我们就把这个问题简化了一半,我们可以大胆的扔掉另一半。
In fact, better than that, this guy is already sorted as well because I whittled that problem down to size 1.
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。
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