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单词 whittle
释义
whittle
verb[T]
uk
/ˈwɪt.əl/us
/ˈwɪt̬.əl/
to make something from apieceofwoodbycuttingoffsmall,thinpieces:
（用木头）削制，削成
Anoldsailorsaton thedockside, whittling atoyboat.一名老水手坐在码头边，用木头削制一只玩具船。
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Phrasal verbs

whittle away atsomething
whittlesomethingdown
(Definition ofwhittlefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

whittle| American Dictionary

whittle
verb[I/T]
us
/ˈhwɪt̬·əl,ˈwɪt̬-/
toslicethinpiecesfrom apieceofwood, or toformsomething fromwoodbyslicingpiecesoff it:
[I]Helikesto whittle.

Idiom

whittle away (at)something
(Definition ofwhittlefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofwhittle

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Practising architecture is asking oneself questions, finding one's own answers with the help of the teacher, whittling down, finding solutions.
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The philosophy is easy-first parsing - we make the easy calls first, whittling away at the harder decisions in the process.
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Such faith, moreover, wouldwhittleaway at the onslaughts of sin and cultivate a ' vivifying ' righteousness that spoke volumes to the enquiring soul.
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From a distance, all of these efforts appear as whittling away at the bark of, say, an old growth trunk.
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Most of these excess e's were whittled away in the course of the 17th century.
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Whittlewas able to go further, proving, in a slightly simpler case, a separation theorem that implies our certainty equivalence theorem in that case.
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Given that the criteria for inclusion has been whittled away by these very serious limitations, it is exceedingly difficult to identify any audience for whom this bibliography can realistically cater.
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Drugstore's expansive experimentalism fostered obscurity in a conflation of diverse marginal styles, while jazu-kissa whittled their singular collections down to perfectly contained and delineated generic repertoires.
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By the time the 50p is received it will have been whittled away by the grabbing hand of galloping inflation.
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Prices are soaring, racialism is raising its ugly head more boldly, education is being cut, and other social services whittled away.
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Are we adequately provided with playgrounds, and if we are not, how can we justify this whittling down?
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They are in no wise whittled down or tampered with; but an anomaly is removed.
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In the whittled down form it is true that this anachronism has an advantage to the accused which tips the scales in his favour.
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The assessors whittled this down by certain disallowances to £13,600.
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For most people, better industrial relations is more about improved co-operation, partnership and consultation than about court injunctions and whittling away some remaining employee rights.
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