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.He took a square block of wood and whittled it down to form the hull of a model boat.
他拿起一方块状木头，将它削成一个模型船的船身。
2.Dell, by not working through retail outlets, is still more efficient, but the cost benefits that this once brought have been whittled away.
戴尔公司不依靠零售代理，仍然非常的高效，不过这种销售方式曾经给它带来的生产成本优势却不复存在了。
3.presents: To Harry from Hagrid: a roughly cut wooden flute that sounded a bit like an owl. Hagrid had whittled it, himself.
礼物：海格送给哈利的礼物：一只做工很粗糙的木笛，吹起来的声音有点像猫头鹰叫。海格自己动手做的。
4.Before he knows it, he has whittled his stick down to a toothpick, which snaps in his hands.
他不知不觉把那块木头削得像牙签一样细，在他的手中折断了。
5.It was on this voyage that he conceived the idea of the revolver and whittled out a wooden model.
正是在此航程中，他所构思的想法的佩枪及whittled了一个木制模型。
6.Suddenly, an impressive printout looks like a very thin reed on which to hang your future, while your account is being whittled away.
突然，你从打印的结果发现好像把你的未来放在这根稻草上也不行，然而你的账户已经少了很多。
7.They whittled down the enemy's military and economic strength in a war of attrition.
他们通过消耗战削弱敌人的军事和经济力量。
8."The capacity overhang has been quickly whittled down in major industrial sectors, " they wrote in a recent report.
“主要工业部门的过剩产能一直在快速减少，”他们在最近的一份报告中写道。
9.Thin undoubtedly become such a period the most deadly invisible killer, one of many people were whittled variations.
薄无疑变成这样一个时期最致命的隐形杀手，许多人被削变化。
10.Others in Washington and throughout Asia can only hope that too much U. S. leverage on China is not whittled away in the meantime.
华盛顿的其他人以及那些亚洲国家，就只能希望美国对中国的平衡不会一起被过度削弱。