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whittle down

/ˈwɪt.əl daʊn/

翻译: 动词短语,指逐步削减规模、数量或体积,通常通过剔除或裁减来实现。

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词语关系

verb

/ˈwɪt.əl daʊn/C1formal
  • zh动词短语,指逐步削减规模、数量或体积,通常通过剔除或裁减来实现。

A phrasal verb meaning to gradually reduce the size, number, or amount of something, often through a process of elimination or cutting back.

不可数 · 及物 · 短语动词,可分

  1. Reduce graduallyinformal

    To gradually reduce the size, number, or amount of something.

    zh逐步削减

    • We need to whittle down the list of candidates to just three.
    • He whittled down his expenses to save money.
    • The committee whittled down the proposals to the most feasible ones.

    同义词cut downdecreasediminishdwindleerodelessenpare downreducescale downshrinktrimwear down

    反义词augmentbuildenlargeexpandincrease

词形
  • whittled down past participle
  • whittled down past simple
  • whittling down present participle
  • whittles down third person singular

基本动词whittle

Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

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Vocabulary data from the Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset (CC BY 4.0), https://huggingface.co/datasets/Fristail27/vocab-bloom-hub-en

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