whittle
/'hwitl/
📖 中文释义
- vt. 逐渐削薄, 削整, 削弱, 削减
- vi. 削木头
- n. 大刀, 屠刀
🔗 释义中的汉语词
🧩 词形变化
💬 双语例句
In the ensuing months, that forecast was steadily whittled down, reaching 3.1% in October. But the IMF continues to insist – as it has, with almost banal predictability, for the last seven years – that next year will be better.
华盛顿—去年4月,国际货币基金组织(IMF)预测2015年世界经济将增长3.5 % 。 在随后的几个月中,这一预测被逐步调低,10月份时下降到3.1 % 。 但IMF仍然坚持 — — 在过去七年中它一贯如此,几乎没有什么预见性可言 — — 明年会更好。 但几乎可以肯定,IMF又错了。
Rand, perhaps better than any economic observer, underscored the central role of incentives in driving entrepreneurial innovation and risk-taking. Whittle away at incentives – and at the market’s ability to communicate them through price signals – and you starve the growth engine of its fuel.
或许兰德比所有经济观察家都更好地指出了激励在激发企业家创新行为和风险承担行为中的核心作用。 激励的减少 — — 以及市场通过价格信号传递激励信息的能力的下降 — — 无异于收走增长引擎中的燃料。 可是,很显然,采取利率控制和量化宽松的央行忽视了这一事实。
Since the Oslo Accords of 1993, which envisaged a Palestinian state on the West Bank and in Gaza, “facts on the ground” have whittled down the putative Palestinian state still further. Part of the West Bank has been annexed outright by Israel or seized by Israeli settlers.
自1993年签订奥斯陆协定(设想在约旦河西岸和加沙建立巴勒斯坦国)以来 , “ 既成事实”是假定的巴勒斯坦国国土越缩越小。 约旦河西岸的一部分要么被以色列彻底吞并,要么被以色列定居点占领。 巴勒斯坦权力机构只在25%左右的互不相邻的土地上拥有自治权。
🔵 同义词
🔗 常用搭配
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- n. English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996)
- v. cut small bits or pare shavings from