whittling

例句:

• Mr McKillips...began whittling as a lad in Washington State.
  来自Scottish World
• Ted...started...whittling a pencil down to the stub.
  来自J. Harvey
• 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。
  来自《权威词典》
• Chitty sat in his rocking-chair whittling wood.
  奇蒂坐在摇椅上削着木头。
  
• Inflation has been whittling away their savings.
  通货膨胀使他们的积蓄不断减少.
  
• Commercials hiked gross longs and cut gross shorts and whittling down their net-short position.
  来自FORBES