Whittled
[hwɪtld]
解釋/意思:
(imp. & p. p.) of Whittle
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例句/造句/用法:
- Almost daily he whetted his keen knife and scraped and whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem of apehood. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Thomas Blanchard, born in Massachusetts in 1788, while a boy, was accustomed to astonish his companions by the miniature wind-wheels and water-wheels that he whittled out with his knife. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- I went with Musgrave to his study and whittled myself this peg, to which I tied this long string with a knot at each yard. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- While on this voyage the conception of a revolving pistol came to him, and he whittled out a rude model of one with a penknife from a piece of wood. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The very knife with which a stick is whittled is a machine. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
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