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。 - We whittle it down to two.
慢慢地，我们又减少到了两项。 - 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。 - I think we'd better whittle down her schedule.
我想我们最好削减一些她的日程计划。 - Their resistance and boycott threat might instead be more of an effort to whittle down the markup that Rio Tinto is seeking in current contract negotiations.
他们的反对和抵制威胁或许更是一种为打击力拓的涨价企图而采取的策略。 - In the case of private equity, critics worry that a capital gains tax regime designed to stimulate the growth of smaller quoted companies is being used to whittle down the tax rate on the "carried interest" of private equity bosses to an unjustifiably low level.
以私人股本行业为例，批评人士担心，以激励小规模上市企业增长为目的的资本利得税体制，正被用于将私人股本高管的“附带权益”（carriedinterest）税率降低至不合理的水平。 - They are trying to whittle down our salaries.
他们正着手削减我们的薪水。 - While the military gap between China and the United States may remain for some time, he argued, china's faster economic growth and increasing political strength may whittle down america's overall advantage.
他辩称，尽管中国和美国相比，军事上还有一段时间的差距，但中国更快的经济增长和日趋强大的政治实力应可削减美国的总体优势。 - Write out the complete story, he advises, and then whittle it down to a series of concise descriptive bullet points.
他建议，写出整个故事，然后再浓缩为一系列简明扼要的叙述。 - Whittle the stick down a bit more.
把木棍再削细点儿。