to whittle down的意思|示意

The same-nation clause of the draw means that we can now whittle our list of potential next-round opponents down to five.

同一联赛不能碰面的规则意味着，我们可以把我们下轮中可能遇到的对手范围减少到5名。

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。

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。

Simpson (John, not Homer) and his colleagues whittle that list down to the few that seem to have gotten a solid foothold in popular usage.

约翰-辛普森和他的同事们把众多的例句中筛选出在现实生活中最禁得住推敲的句子。

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。

Lasers then cut through the material to whittle it down and create the desired shape.

激光器然后通过材料切割以削减下来，并创建所需的形状。