whittle down 的 3 个定义
whit·tled, whit·tling.
- to cut, trim, or shape by carving off bits with a knife.
- to form by whittling: to whittle a figure.
- to cut off.
- to reduce the amount of, as if by whittling; pare down; take away by degrees: to whittle down the company's overhead; to whittle away one's inheritance.
whit·tled, whit·tling.
- to whittle wood or the like with a knife, as in shaping something or as a mere aimless diversion: to spend an afternoon whittling.
- to tire oneself or another by worrying or fussing.
- British Dialect. a knife, especially a large one, as a carving knife or a butcher knife.
whittle down 近义词
等同于 trim
更多whittle down例句
- Neither Cipriani nor Whittle responded to requests for comment.
- In spite of his new entrepreneurial vision, Whittle maintains his good feelings towards the Pacha owners.
- In fact, Bomba almost turned into a nightmare for the Cipriani-Whittle duo.
- How did you whittle all that material into the final shape of the film?
- And as Bill Whittle put it, “Republicans should commit to their own story.”
- Wal, Capm, fust thing is to fish up a bit 'f driftwood 'n' whittle out 'nother paddle.
- He'd sit with his cigar tilted up in one corner of his mouth, and his hat tilted forward, and whittle sticks.
- Anyone can whittle these little sticks out, using any kind of hard wood.
- The other picked up a pine splinter from the wharf, and producing a knife, began to whittle it.
- Lawyer Whittle was fined two pecks of apples and cigars for wearing a stovepipe hat and so the fun went on, day after day.