whittling

英 [ˈwɪtlɪŋ]

美 [ˈwɪtlɪŋ]

v.  把(木头等)削成…
whittle的现在分词

现在分词：whittling　

柯林斯词典

• VERB 削(木头等)
  If youwhittlesomething 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。

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• "Just keep whittling," she advises.
  “只要保持清除，”她建议。
• 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。
• Chitty sat in his rocking-chair whittling wood.
  奇蒂坐在摇椅上削着木头。
• The government is whittling away at the rights of citizens.
  政府正在逐渐削弱公民的权利。