whittle
- v. 用刀削（木头），削出、削成；削减，削弱，逐渐减少（常与 down、away 连用）
- n. （旧、方言）刀，尤指屠刀；惠特尔（英语姓氏，亦指英国航空工程师弗兰克·惠特尔，喷气式发动机的发明者）
[ 第三人称单数 whittles 现在分词 whittling 过去式 whittled 过去分词 whittled ]
网络释义专业释义英英释义
Frank Whittle 弗兰克·惠特尔
whittle down 削减 ; 逐渐压缩…的人数
Chris Whittle 惠特尔
Sarah Whittle 邦妮杭特
whittle away 消减 ; 缩小差距
Stephen Whittle 惠特尔
Ricky Whittle 里基·怀托
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
whittle /ˈwɪtəl/ ( whittling, whittled, whittles )
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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)
例：He whittled a new handle for his ax.
他为自己的斧头削了一个新斧柄。
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I finally managed to whittle down the names on the list to only five.
我最后总算把名单上的名字减少到了只有五个。
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While users can whittle apps down to broad categories, such as games, they can't sort by rating or recently added.
用户查看应用的目录时，例如游戏，无法按等级或更新时间来排序。
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“Once you get very large, the cost of implementing decisions starts to whittle away your advantage,” says Mr Wightman.
Wightman先生说“一旦你的规模过大，执行决定的成本开始削弱你的优势”。
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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。
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