1.切;削;削减,减少;削瘦,损害 (down; away)
1.〈英方,古〉切肉用大刀;屠刀
1.to make an object out of wood by cutting pieces off the wood with a small knife
1.But should attacks by the coalition forces continue, the slow whittling away of his heavy weaponry is likely to reduce his options rapidly.
然而一旦联军的空袭持续下去，慢慢耗掉他的重型武器，他的优势可能会迅速丢失。
2.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。
3.Andrew especially liked to follow the stream back to a flat rock, where he would sit, whittling and thinking.
安德鲁尤其喜欢沿着小溪走到一块平滑的石块那儿坐下来，边削树枝边沉思。
4.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。
5.I was slowly whittling away at my possessions, then took a huge leap when we sold or gave away almost everything and moved to San Francisco.
我曾慢慢削减我的杂物，终于在卖掉或送出几乎所有东西并搬到旧金山的时候迈出了一大步。
6.Translate the following sentence into Chinese, 'But it's a real person who can give you power to focus on whittling a problem down to size.
但是还是现实的人能给你力量，让你集中精力来把问题简化。
7.The market had expected some form of monetary easing but hadn't imagined a whittling of interest rates, even if merely symbolic.
市场已经预料到了一些关于货币政策松动的形式，但却没有想到利率被降低了，即使仅仅是象征性的降低。
8.It is whittling away at family reunification rights, and plans to make it harder to settle permanently in Britain.
它限制了由于家庭团聚而申请移民的人数，并拟定一批计划加大永久定居英国的难度。
9.In the meantime, new competitors are eroding incumbent businesses' market shares, with price wars whittling down their profit margins.
与此同时，新的竞争者正通过价格战压低现有企业的利润率，侵蚀它们的市场份额。
10.An innocent intimacy, enhanced by the way he was carving, like a boy whittling a stick.
他像一个男孩那样在修削木块，使这种亲密感觉更加显得单纯。