whittling

英 [ˈwɪtlɪŋ] 美 [ˈwɪtlɪŋ]

v.  把(木头等)削成…
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现在分词：whittling

柯林斯词典

  1. VERB 削(木头等)
    If you whittle something from a piece of wood, you carve it by cutting pieces off the wood with a knife.
    1. He whittled a new handle for his ax...
      他给斧头削了一个新把手。
    2. Chitty sat in his rocking-chair whittling wood.
      奇蒂坐在摇椅上削着木头。
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双语例句

  1. Chitty sat in his rocking-chair whittling wood.
    奇蒂坐在摇椅上削着木头。
  2. He is whittling down the branch with a knife to make a handle for his hoe.
    他在用刀削树枝做一把锄头柄。
  3. I wish algebra and geometry had been half as easy as the languages and literature. But even mathematics Mr. Keith made interesting; he succeeded in whittling problems small enough to get through my brain.
    如果代数和几何能有外语和文学一半那么容易就好了，但是即使像数学这样的课程，凯斯先生也把它变得多了些趣味。
  4. Though the fall in the price of oil, a major Russian export commodity, has been whittling away at the ruble for months, oil prices actually ticked up on Monday.
    虽然俄罗斯主要出口商品石油的价格下降导致卢布贬值已有数月，但周一的油价实际上略有上升。
  5. An old sailor sat on the dockside, whittling a toy boat.
    一个老水手坐在码头边，削着一只玩具小船。
  6. "Just keep whittling," she advises.
    “只要保持清除，”她建议。
  7. He might be whittling, or splicing a rope, or just sitting.
    他在削什么东西，或在搓绳，或只是坐着。
  8. Sometimes he'd quiet down and just stare sadly at the floor, like a man whittling.
    有时他会静下来，纯粹悲哀地凝视着地板，象一个正在用小刀削刻的人。
  9. The government is whittling away at the rights of citizens.
    政府正在逐渐削弱公民的权利。
  10. Since then he has broken his collarbone, cracked his ribs, broken both his ankles, stabbed himself while whittling a stick and cut off the end of his finger with a Stanley knife.
    从那时起，他先后摔断（裂）过锁骨、肋骨和双脚脚踝，削棍子时刺伤过自己，还被斯坦利木工刀割掉了一只手指指尖。
  11. Shape ( stone or wood, for example) by whittling away at it.
    在木头或者石头上削使之成形。
  12. Archie's whittling annoyed her and she frowned at him.
    阿尔奇在那里削木头，她也感到不舒服，对着他直皱眉头。
  13. Organizations make themselves "more slimly and more scant" to answer a world-wide competition by the innovation of whittling down people and adopting new originality such as TQM and JIT.
    组织回应全球性竞争的方式之一就是力图使自己变得“更纤细和更吝啬”：“规模削减”、“扁平化”的改革一浪高过一浪，TQM、JIT等新创意不断出现。
  14. Noise control technique of whittling machine
    削片机噪声及其控制技术
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