1·I finally managed to whittle down the names on the list to only five.
我最后总算把名单上的名字减少到了只有五个。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·They won't whittle down your salaries.
他们不会削减你们的工资。
3·They are trying to whittle down our salaries.
他们正着手削减我们的薪水。
4·Whittle down the debt by making small payments.
通过小额支付来削减债务。
5·Mr Selten's work let economists whittle down the number of possible Nash equilibria.
泽尔腾的研究让经济学家减少了可能的纳什均衡的数量。
6·But if you looked at them and said, "I want to reach the top five in online music," you can whittle down the list.
但是，如果你看着他们说：“我想达到的五大在线音乐”，这意味着您可以削减名单了。
7·Earlier efforts by Mr. Gates to whittle down his partner's stake in Microsoft were successful though, according to Mr.
不过，按照艾伦的说法，盖茨之前就尝试过削减他在微软公司的股权比例，而且取得了成功。
8·One of the central intellectual projects in the Constitution of Liberty is the Humean one to use reason to whittle down the claims of reason.
《自由秩序原理》中的核心内容之一也是休谟使用的原因之一去削弱理性的主张。
9·Nowak has been busy working on how to whittle down the emergence of life into the simplest possible chemical system that he can describe mathematically.
Nowak 一直在忙着思考如何简化生命出现的过程，直至他有可能用数学描述这个最简单的化学系统。
10·It has no official status yet, and must be formally approved before negotiators can start to whittle it down.
该份草案尚不具备官方地位，并且在谈判开始之前，文本的削减必须获得正式批准。