whittle down
基本解释
- v. 削减,削弱
英汉例句
- 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。 - One of the central intellectual projects in The Constitution of Liberty is the Humean one to use reason to whittle down the claims of Reason.
《自由秩序原理》中的核心内容之一也是休谟使用的原因之一去削弱理性的主张。 - They are trying to whittle down our salaries .
他们正着手削减我们的薪水。 - 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。
哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选 - The new regulations will whittle down the list of approved manufacturers to ten for 2003.
FORBES: Magazine Article - It too incarcerated its contestants and obliged them to whittle down their own numbers.
ECONOMIST: We love you, Big Brother - The opposition's best hope in the next election may be to whittle down his majority.
ECONOMIST: The verdict on Malaysia
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词组短语
- whittle e down 消减
- whittle down to size 大事化小
- to whittle down 消磨
- whittle the field down 逐渐减少
- whittle down expense 削减费用