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1. Some 19,000 hopefuls sat an exam, and were whittled down to 600;

1.9万人参加了考试，然后刷至600人；

2. Cut off the supply and it doesn't matter how big the enemy's army is, they'll soon be whittled down to nothing.

不管来犯之敌人数有多少，只要没有后勤供应，所有入侵者的下场全都一样！

3. The number of employees is being whittled down in order to reduce costs

为节省开支现正逐渐裁员.

4. The number of employees is being whittled down in order to reduce cost.

为节省开支现正逐渐裁员。

5. Before he knows it, he has whittled his stick down to a toothpick, which snaps in his hands

他不知不觉把那块木头削得像牙签一样细，在他的手中折断了。

6. They whittled down the enemy's military and economic strength in a war of attrition.

他们通过消耗战削弱敌人的军事和经济力量。

7. He whittled the wood into a spoon.

他把木材削成一支汤匙。

8. He whittled a simple toy from the piece of wood.

他把那块木头削成了一个简易的玩具。

9. He took a squae block of wood and whittled it down to form the hull of a model boat.

他拿起一方块状木头，将它削成一个模型船的船身。

10. One of his legs was gone at the knee and to the stump was fitted a roughly whittled wooden peg.

他有一条腿被平膝截掉了，马马虎虎地装上了一段木头。

11. He whittled and listened, gave monosyllabic replies, and when it was asked, terse advice.

他边削边听，冷淡地搭着话。

12. But as developers make their way around the archipelago, shark habitat will continue to be whittled away.

但当开发者们在群岛上大兴土木的同时，鲨鱼的生存领地也在不断被剥夺。

13. " Several months ago, more than 120,000 contestants auditioned in five different cities in a week-after-week elimination process that grew in popularity as the field was whittled down.

几个月以前，超过 120,000个竞争者在几个星期内在五个不同的城市中参加了试听等各种选拔程序,并且逐渐淘汰掉大多数人.

14. The survival of tillers developed from tiller nodes of every age could be promoted while tillers developed from the rhizomes could be whittled down by grazing interference during next growth season.

割草将影响翌年生长季前期各龄分蘖植株、尤其是老龄分蘖植株的物质生产，但是这种影响至生长季中期便消失。

15. Whittled by a half million years of wind and rain, the haunting claystone hills and buttes of Badlands National Park rise above the surrounding sea of grasslands.

历经了50万年的风吹雨打后，恶地国家公园的黏土岩丘陵与孤山矗立在一片草原之海中。

16. That is welcome even if the conclusion is already glaringly obvious: a wish-list of expensive kit must be whittled down.

反思的结果已经再明显不过了：削减昂贵的军服和装备是众望所归。尽管如此，这样做仍是受欢迎的。

17. Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them, trying our knives, and admiring the clear yellowish grain of the pumpkin pine.

各自谈出自己的思想，好像把木片都晒干那样，我们坐下来，把它们削尖，试试我们的刀子，欣赏着那些松木的光亮的纹理。

18. Over the first few weeks the numbers are whittled down to a final 14 by the Chelsea judges, who include former F.A. Cup winner, Eddie Newton.

在最初几周内，参赛者将会削减为最后14人，评判由切尔西的评审做出，他们当中包括前足总杯冠军埃迪尔-牛顿

19. Liverpool's title hopes have whittled further following the loss at Stamford Bridge and Skrtel admits he is keen to erase Sunday's result from his memory ahead of a round of international fixtures.

在输给斯坦福桥之后，利物浦夺冠希望已经渺茫，斯特科尔承认他希望在国际比赛日之前把周日的失利忘掉。

20. Years of skirmishing with the inexhaustible resources of the Dominion has whittled down Raynor's forces to a shadow of their former selves.

多年来与补给无忧的皇朝之间的持续冲突使得雷纳的势力灯尽油枯，成为风中残影。

21. Brian Eastick's 23-man England squad will be whittled down to 18 for the tournament, which takes place in the Czech Republic between 14 July and 26 July.

射手威尔贝克17岁，门将本.阿莫斯18岁，上赛季在曼联梯队都打得不错。威尔贝克还破格成为了预备队的主力。

22. As he worked, shell fragments whittled down the trees and casualties increased.

当他工作时，炮弹碎片削断树木，伤亡随之增加。

23. When you've whittled your list down3) to a manageable number, make arrangements to visit.

当你将学校数量缩减到一个可控制的范围后，安排时间去那些学校参观。

24. Struggling Sanyo had been whittled down by three banks that had bailed it out three years earlier (including a foreign one, Goldman Sachs).

当时正艰难挣扎的三洋已被三年前给与其紧急援助的三家银行（其中包括国外的高盛）所拖累。

25. I'm whittled to death about his future.

我为他的前途担心。

26. We whittled a wooden horse.

我们削成一匹木马。

27. We've whittled down a mass of evidence and produced two clear leads.

我们清理了一大堆证据，理出了两个清晰的线索。

28. Our lead (= in a sports competition, for example) was being gradually whittled away.

我们的领先优势在逐渐削弱。

29. The government's majority has been whittled down to eight.

政府多数票减少到了八票。

30. Nominees were whittled down to four finalists including Zaibun Siraj, 61, a training consultant at a local polytechnic.

新加坡“最快乐的人”评选活动结果于上周四在当地召开的一个研讨会上揭晓。

31. And the haplotype that includes the mutated gene will likewise get whittled down with each subsequent recombination.

每一次染色体重组，包含了突变基因的单纯型也会越来越短。

32. The types were made of pieces of wood that he had whittled out with his penknife.

活字模是木块做的,是他用削笔刀刻出来的。

33. Dell, by not working through retail outlets, is still more efficent, but the cost benefits that this once brought have been whittled away.

由于不需要专卖店销售环节，戴尔还是比其对手要高效，不过，这一模式曾经带来的成本优势却已经被削弱了。

34. Given this fall's market gyrations, weekends have been among the few respites from the financial crisis, and even weekends are getting whittled away.

由于这个秋天市场波动剧烈，周末已成为屈指可数、能暂避金融危机压力的时光，而且就连周末也逐渐被压缩了。

35. This has whittled down the margin between banks' deposit and home-loan rates, so lowering the cost of mortgages.

由于银行存款利率和房屋贷款利率之间的差额减小了，抵押贷款的成本也降低了。

36. presents: To Harry from Hagrid: a roughly cut wooden flute that sounded a bit like an owl. Hagrid had whittled it, himself.

礼物:海格送给哈利的礼物:一只做工很粗糙的木笛,吹起来的声音有点像猫头鹰叫.海格自己动手做的.

37. Originally, Tou Mali had a much stronger force, but the Field Mouse had whittled it down.

窦马利的势力原来比较强，但是，后来被地老鼠给削弱了不少。

38. First, the Tories' lead in England, though whittled in 2008, has proved enduring. Polls suggest that the likelier a Tory victory is at Westminster, the more Scots will favour independence.

第一，在2008年，虽然托利党人的领先势头有所减缓，但是它还是长久处在领先地位的。民调显示托利党在威斯敏斯特获胜的可能性越大，苏格兰人就越有可能支持独立。

39. In that game last month, the Lakers let an 18-point lead get whittled down to one before Bryant came to the rescue by scoring 15 of his 36 points in the fourth quarter of a 107-93 win.

而在上个月，湖人挥霍掉了18分的领先优势，让雷霆将分差追到只差1分，而随后科比在第四节拿到他个人36分钟的15分，湖人也最终以107-93击败了对手。

40. Profits are whittled down by the ever-rising cost of energy.

能源成本的不断上升使利润下降。

41. The number can be whittled down.

这个数字还可以再减少一些。

42. The project was being whittled down into a guerrilla infiltration

这个计划已缩小成一种游击战术式的渗入。

43. They can be whittled down further.

这些银行名字未来可能会被缩减。

44. It is now a tournament between the champions of all the different confederations, although qualifying has whittled it down to seven clubs.

这是来自各大洲冠军之间角逐的锦标赛，尽管参赛的资格已经大副削减到了7家俱乐部。

45. That belief was rooted in his frequent plastic surgeries, which whittled his nose from a broad frame to an almost impossibly narrowed bridge.

这种想法的植根事源于他频繁地参加整形手术，例如把他的大鼻子削到了几乎最小。

46. The condition, known as bruxism, has resulted in several of Mr Blair's once-sharp teeth being whittled down to stumps.

这种称为磨牙的状况，导致布雷尔原本锋利的牙齿，有几颗磨到只剩残牙。

47. The declaration may yet be whittled away to nothing.

这项决议声明还不见得就完全是纸上谈兵。

48. Inflation has steadily whittled away their savings.

通货膨胀使他们的积蓄不断减少。

49. Inflation has whittled away their savings.

通货膨胀蚕食了他们的积蓄。

50. whittled down the debt by making small payments.

通过小额支付来削减债务

51. The pencil has been whittled away to a mere stump.

铅笔已削的只剩下一个笔头了。

52. Al juggled what he had whittled.

阿尔用他削得东西玩耍。

53. then after the false gods penetrated, little by little they whittled away at our souls, demolishing them and striping them of their knowledge.

随后虚假神们刺入，一点点地他们削去我们的灵魂，毁坏他们并剥去他们的知识。

54. They are expected to promise to restrain themselves from raising the trade barriers that have been whittled away over decades of tortuous multilateral negotiations.

预计他们将承诺限制贸易壁垒，这些壁垒已经削弱了过去所达成的曲折的多边谈判。

55. Thousands of players who enter are whittled down to twelve finalists, all of whom are put to the test at their Cobham training ground.

首先，从上千名参与者中选出12名青年，这些人需要进入练习场进行测试。

56. e.g.Bad financial management has whittled away the company's profits.

（这一方法使用一连串线索以逐渐减少排除选项，到最后只剩下一个选项。）