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

• 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。
• 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。
• Shape ( stone or wood, for example) by whittling away at it.
  在木头或者石头上削使之成形。
• "Just keep whittling," she advises.
  “只要保持清除，”她建议。
• 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。
• He is whittling down the branch with a knife to make a handle for his hoe.
  他在用刀削树枝做一把锄头柄。
• 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。
• An old sailor sat on the dockside, whittling a toy boat.
  一个老水手坐在码头边，削着一只玩具小船。
• Noise control technique of whittling machine
  削片机噪声及其控制技术