whittle down
英 [ˈwɪtl daʊn]
美 [ˈwɪtl daʊn]
逐渐减少; 逐渐压缩…的人数
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 逐渐减少;逐渐压缩…的人数
Towhittle downa group or thing means to gradually make it smaller.- He had whittled eight interviewees down to two...
他已经逐渐将参加面试的人数由8人减少到2人。 - By September, they will have whittled the list down to a winner...
9月之前他们会从名单中确定出最后的赢家。 - The president has agreed to whittle down his proposal.
总统已经同意减少他的提案。
- He had whittled eight interviewees down to two...
英英释义
verb
- cut away in small pieces
双语例句
- BERLIN ( Reuters Life!)– Challenged with a100 million euro ($ 133 million) deficit, one western German city has introduced a day tax on prostitutes to help whittle down its budget gap.
柏林（路透社）-受100万欧元（1.33亿美元）赤字的冲击，德国西部城市之一引入妓女住宿税，以帮助削减其预算缺口。 - I am told by several banks that one of the ways they whittle down thousands of applicants to the 200-300 that they interview each year is by looking for relevant work experience, or internships.
几家银行告诉我，它们每年把数千名应聘者大幅削减到面试的二三百人，所用的方法之一，就是看他们有没有相关的工作经验或实习经验。 - More than 70,000 people voted in the first round to whittle it down to a shortlist of 10 and members of the public now have six weeks to choose which British bird they would like to see represent the country, he said.
他说，超过7万民众参与了第一轮投票，海选过后得出十个最终候选鸟，在接下来的六周里，民众就要选出哪种鸟最能代表英国。 - Don't whittle the stick down too much or it won't be long enough.
别把那棍削得太多，不然就不够长了。 - By September, they will have whittled the list down to a winner
9月之前他们会从名单中确定出最后的赢家。 - The president has agreed to whittle down his proposal.
总统已经同意减少他的提案。 - Eventually, users can whittle that fee down to nothing by tying their computers to The Pirate Bay's "cloud" network.
不过，如果用户愿意把自己的电脑加入海盗湾的“云”计算网络，那么他们的月费就可以被减免。 - He had whittled eight interviewees down to two
他已经逐渐将参加面试的人数由8人减少到2人。 - We whittle it down to two.
慢慢地，我们又减少到了两项。 - 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。