Ultimately, Mr. Penn said, Uber wants to whittle Beijing's time down to five minutes.

For a variety of practical reasons, Baker was forced to whittle the design down, first by dropping the top band of hot pink ( a pigment that proved difficult to source) and then turquoise ( inclusion of which, for reasons of symmetry, made displaying the flag as a vertically-hung banner from lampposts awkward).

由于各种实际原因，贝克被迫简化设计，首先去掉了顶部的亮粉色彩带（被证明是缺少颜料来源），然后去掉了天青色（出于对称原因，为了便于将旗帜垂直挂在路灯柱上）。

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To make it tractable at all, the IMF membership had to whittle the basket down from its original sixteen currencies in the 1970s to five after 1981, later compressed to four as the D-Mark and the French franc were subsumed into the euro.

为了更加便于管控，IMF不得不将货币篮子从上世纪70年代的16种货币削减至1981年后的5种，后来随着德国马克和法国法郎被并入欧元又减少至4种。

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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。

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Eventually, users can whittle that fee down to nothing by tying their computers to The Pirate Bay's "cloud" network.

不过，如果用户愿意把自己的电脑加入海盗湾的“云”计算网络，那么他们的月费就可以被减免。

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Don't whittle the stick down too much or it won't be long enough.

别把那棍削得太多，不然就不够长了。

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As Kodak ( ekdkq, Fortune 500) sets course to emerge from bankruptcy protection in 2013, it will continue to lighten its load, hoping to cut costs and whittle itself down to its most profitable assets.

柯达公司（Kodak）正设法到2013年摆脱破产保护的阴影，为此它将继续减轻负担，希望就此削减成本，只保留最具盈利能力的资产。

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More than 70,000 people voted in the first round to whittle it down to a shortlist of 10 and members of the public now have six weeks to choose which British bird they would like to see represent the country, he said.

他说，超过7万民众参与了第一轮投票，海选过后得出十个最终候选鸟，在接下来的六周里，民众就要选出哪种鸟最能代表英国。

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Write out the complete story, he advises, and then whittle it down to a series of concise descriptive bullet points.

他建议，写出整个故事，然后再浓缩为一系列简明扼要的叙述。

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Just whittle it down, you know?

把它简化一点？

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We whittle it down to two.

慢慢地，我们又减少到了两项。

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In the case of private equity, critics worry that a capital gains tax regime designed to stimulate the growth of smaller quoted companies is being used to whittle down the tax rate on the "carried interest" of private equity bosses to an unjustifiably low level.

以私人股本行业为例，批评人士担心，以激励小规模上市企业增长为目的的资本利得税体制，正被用于将私人股本高管的“附带权益”（carried interest）税率降低至不合理的水平。

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I am told by several banks that one of the ways they whittle down thousands of applicants to the 200-300 that they interview each year is by looking for relevant work experience, or internships.

几家银行告诉我，它们每年把数千名应聘者大幅削减到面试的二三百人，所用的方法之一，就是看他们有没有相关的工作经验或实习经验。

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While the military gap between China and the United States may remain for some time, he argued, china's faster economic growth and increasing political strength may whittle down america's overall advantage.

他辩称，尽管中国和美国相比，军事上还有一段时间的差距，但中国更快的经济增长和日趋强大的政治实力应可削减美国的总体优势。

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Their resistance and boycott threat might instead be more of an effort to whittle down the markup that Rio Tinto is seeking in current contract negotiations.

他们的反对和抵制威胁或许更是一种为打击力拓的涨价企图而采取的策略。

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Cadiz is on the windier Atlantic side of southern Spain.

卡迪斯地处西班牙南部的大西洋多风面。

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Nowhere is colder, windier or more hostile to life.

没有不冷的地方，而在这种条件下生命很难存活。

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It's considerably windier today than it was yesterday.

今天的风比昨天的风大得多。

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The next time you make a wish, instead of wishing on a shooting star, or throwing pennies into a wishing well, you can try the Japanese way of wishing during the Tanabata Festival.

下次你要许愿时，不用对着流星许愿或是把硬币丢到许愿井里，你可以在七夕节的时候试一试日本的许愿方式。

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It is wonderful news from St Mary's Paddington, and I am sure right across the country and right across the Commonwealth people will be celebrating and wishing the royal couple well.

圣玛丽医院传出了这个喜讯，我可以肯定现在举国上下和英联邦国家的人们都在欢庆和祝福这对皇家伉俪。

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At last, the author expresses some suggestions on the developmental direction of the economy of Temple Taer, wishing it goes well in the mode of using the temple itself to support the temple.

最后本人就塔尔寺寺院经济的发展方向上提出了自己的一些意见，希望塔尔寺能在“以寺养寺”的新型寺院经经济的模式中走得更好，更远。

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