英语释义

• cut small bits or pare shavings from;

  "whittle a piece of wood"

片语

Sarah Whittle邦尼·亨特

Whittle Lee名称

Whittle Arch白拱

Christine Whittle标签

Christy Whittle标签

Lee Whittle标签

Janet Whittle珍妮特·惠特尔

Jon Whittle乔恩·惠特尔

whittle down削减，削弱

Clifford Whittle标签

英汉例句

• like many teenagers away from home for the first time, student claire whittle threw herself enthusiastically into the heavy drinking university social scene.

  像许多第一次离家青少年一样，克莱尔．惠特尔在大学聚会上畅怀狂饮,这会引起什么后果？

• as it turned out, they found hundreds of genes in which the patterns differed systematically, so to whittle the problem down they concentrated on those involved in the function of the mitochondria.

  实验结果，他们发现几百对基因有规律地呈现不同形态，从而揭开了他们重点研究的基因对线粒体各功能的影响之谜。

• mr berlusconi seems likely to win—although mr prodi「s successor as centre-left leader, walter veltroni, a popular mayor of rome, may whittle down his lead.

  虽然接替普罗迪成为中左联盟领导人的沃尔特-瓦托尼是一位广受好评的罗马市长，他的影响也许会削弱贝卢斯科尼的领先地位，但是贝卢斯科尼仍然有望夺得竞选的胜利。

• a girl named maxi went off to whittle a branch with a hunting knife.

  一个名叫马克西(maxi)的女孩走到一边，拿着一把猎刀削起树枝来。

• 「by listening to the universe, you can figure out its structure, 」 whittle said.

  「通过倾听，你能够判断宇宙的结构，」惠特尔说。

• from this, whittle could turn the relative number and strength of waves of different sizes into the relative loudness of high and low pitch notes.

  由此，惠特尔可能将大小不同的微波的相关数字与强度转化成相对应的高低音符的音量。

• 「once you get very large, the cost of implementing decisions starts to whittle away your advantage,」 says mr wightman.

  wightman先生说「一旦你的规模过大，执行决定的成本开始削弱你的优势」。

• the universe provided a unique, if somewhat imperfect, concert hall for what may have been creation」s opening chord, whittle said.

  如果说有几分不完美的话，宇宙为创世之初开场和弦提供了一个独特的音乐厅，惠特尔说。

• whittle will tell you that his project breaks no new scientific ground.

  惠特尔将告诉你，他的项目不会有背新的科学基础。

• the brain tissue analyzed by dr. grant’s team was extracted by a surgeon, ian whittle of edinburgh university.

  格兰特小组分析的脑组织是从爱丁堡大学的外科医师伊恩维特处拿来的。

• this month he will at last unveil his plans to whittle down the number of state-owned companies to about 250 from 319.

  李明博于今年二月份当选为韩国总统，他将在本月最终公布其消减国有公司的计划，从319家减至约250家。

• 「we are actually seeing the sound waves, 」 whittle said.

  「我们确实看到了声波，」惠特尔说。

• 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。

• governance, risk management and compliance platforms take a broad and complex series of business tasks and whittle them down to a central point of focus for the enterprise.

  治理、风险管理及法规遵从平台的工作是将一系列广泛而复杂的企业任务从面化简为点。

• 「in a sense, studies of these ancient sound waves are a kind of cosmic genome project, 」 whittle said.

  在某种意义上，研究这些古老的声波是一项宇宙基因组工程。

• whittle believes his soundtrack can shed light on how matter was distributed in the early formation of the universe.

  惠特尔相信他的配乐会为在宇宙早期形成过程中物质的分布提供帮助。

• users can control one of the sensors to manipulate its camera and laser rangefinder with a touch screen and stylus while an automated control flies the uav, writes richard whittle of aviation week.

  当无人机采用自动控制飞行时，用户可以控制任一传感器，通过一个触摸屏和手写笔来操纵摄像头和激光测距仪。

• leeds crown court was told whittle wrote offensive articles that were then published on the internet by sheppard.

  利兹刑事法庭被告知维特撰写了攻击性文章，然后由斯帕得在因特网上发布。

• the shrinking of the labour force will whittle away at potential growth, consuming the means to pay for it.

  劳动力规模的缩减将削弱发展潜力，堵塞还债通道。

• it has no official status yet, and must be formally approved before negotiators can start to whittle it down.

  该份草案尚不具备官方地位，并且在谈判开始之前，文本的削减必须获得正式批準。

• although germany had produced a jet fighter it was frank whittle of the r.a.f.who had invented the jet engine and patented it as early as 1930.

  虽然德国已经制造了喷气式飞机，但是r.a.f的弗兰克.卫通（frankwhittle）发明的喷气式发动机并早在1930年就申请了专利。

• eventually, users can whittle that fee down to nothing by tying their computers to the pirate bay's 「cloud」 network.

  不过，如果用户愿意把自己的电脑加入海盗湾的「云」计算网络，那么他们的月费就可以被减免。

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