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[编辑] GRE 红宝书

  • v.削 ( 木头) ; 削减
  • [英] v.削 ( 木头) ( to pare or cut off chips) ; 削减 ( to reduce; pare)
  • [例] whittle a branch into a whip handle / whittle down expenses

[编辑] Webster Collegiate

I. noun

  • Etymology: Middle English whittel, alteration of thwitel, from thwiten to whittle, from Old English thwītan; akin to Old Norse thveita to hew
  • Date: 15th century
  • archaic a large knife

II. verb (whittled; whittling)

  • Date: 1552
  • transitive verb
    • 1.
      • a. to pare or cut off chips from the surface of (wood) with a knife
      • b. to shape or form by so paring or cutting
    • 2. to reduce, remove, or destroy gradually as if by cutting off bits with a knife ; pare <whittle down expenses>
  • intransitive verb
    • 1. to cut or shape something (as wood) by or as if by paring it with a knife
    • 2. to wear oneself or another out with fretting
  • ? whittler noun


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