whittle down的例句大全

Other ways to whittle down banks are thinkable.

另外一些削减银行的办法是值得考虑的。

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I think we'd better whittle down her schedule.

我想我们最好削减一些她的日程计划。

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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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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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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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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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We need to whittle down the list of guests for the party.

我们需要缩减聚会的客人名单。

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The president has agreed to whittle down his proposal.

总统已经同意减少他的提案。

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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。

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Profits are whittle down by the ever-rising cost of energy.

不断增长的能源成本使利润下降.

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They are trying to whittle down our salaries.

他们正着手削减我们的薪水.

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

Penn称，Uber希望最终将北京客户的等待时间降至五分钟。

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Just whittle it down, you know?

把它简化一点？

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the grim reaper can cut life short and, under the right circumstances, whittle those still standing down to the size of pygmies.

死神可以使生命缩短，但在特定环境下也可以使活着的人变成侏儒。

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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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But with a little effort, you can whittle your waste way down.

但是稍微付出一点努力，你可以大量减少垃圾排放量。

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A junior HR officer will typically whittle these down to a long list, spending no more than 15 seconds examining each cv.

人力资源部门的低级员工通常会精减出一份初选名单，他们阅读每份简历的时间不超过15秒。

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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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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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