The once numerous field of presidential candidates has been whittled down.

总统候选人现在已经减少了，之前还有很多。

Some businesses are using artificial intelligence to whittle down a field of job applicants.

一些企业正在使用人工智能对申请者进行筛选。

Palisade Head formed from lava over a billion years ago, it's been whittled down by erosion and glacial collisions, leaving us a stunning perch over Lake Superior.

10亿多年前由熔岩形成的栅栏岬，由于侵蚀和冰川碰撞逐渐缩小，成为了苏必利尔湖令人惊叹的栖木。

After that, ballots are sent out and the nominations are whittled down by Academy members.

后选票被送出去, 提名经由学院成员削减。

As often happens in Italy, a daunting punishment has been whittled down to a mild reproof.

正如意大利的一贯作风，一项骇人的刑罚会逐渐缩水，最后变成温和的责备。

As the field whittles down and the caucuses get closer, the candidates actually seem to be enjoying themselves more, which made for a more entertaining debate.

随着竞选活动的减少和党团会议的临近，候选人际似乎更享受他们自己，这使得辩论更有趣。

Now if you factor in being featured on Sports Center, and holding a Guinness World Record, you've likely whittled this field of athletes down to one and that one is named Chris Nikic.

如果你想在这个领域里找出过体育中心节目还破过吉尼斯世界纪录的人，那只有一个，这个人就是Chris Nikic。

So, I whittled down the serious candidates to a shortlist of twelve people.

所以，我有力的候选人缩减到12人。

Tory MPs are whittling the field of candidates, the most diverse ever, down to two.

保守党议员们正在将候选人的范围从有史以来的最大范围缩减到两位。

We whittled it down over time and picked two on last Friday.

随着时间的推移，我们慢慢筛选，并在周五挑选了两个。

In the primaries, voters can whittle down a list of candidates who are running.

在初选中，选民可以削减参选候选人的名单。

What a feat to whittle down the fourteen hours of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung to six minutes of highlights, and it's a great example of the use of music in Chuck Jones's cartoons.

将瓦格纳的《尼伯龙根的指环》长达十四个小时的剧情压缩成六分钟的精彩片段，这是多么了不起的壮举啊！这也是查克·琼斯的动画中使用音乐的一个很好的例子。

The inside of the store was almost like Bullard's store in Jonesboro, except that there were no loungers about the roaring red-hot stove, whittling and spitting streams of tobacco juice at the sand boxes.

店铺里面就像布拉德在琼斯博罗的那店似的，只是这里烧得哔剥作响的炉子周围没有闲人在消遣和向沙箱里吐烟草法。

ON THE FACE of things, it seems both absurd and unfair that large American companies regularly whittle down their tax bills, taking advantage of every loophole on offer.

从表面看，美国大公司经常利用任何一个漏洞削减税单，似乎既荒谬又不公平。

The best way to reconfigure this stressful process is — whittle down and figure out what it is that's causing the stress. Here's a simple example.

重新配置这个压力过程的最好方法是——减弱压力并找出是什么导致压力的根源。

There is a Forest Service proposal to whittle the herd down to as few as 50 and no more than 104 horses, using contraceptives and removal of horses.

林业局提出一项建议，通过使用避孕药具和清除马匹的方式，将马群数量减少到50到104匹。

First, the tip of the tusk was severed with a chopping tool; then the contours of the animals were whittled with a stone knife and scraper.

首先用砍砸器将这象牙尖从象牙砍断；然后用石头刀与石刮刀将动物的轮廓削出来。

So you learn to play an instrument or whittle or knit — although if I learned to whittle I would have zero fingers left.

所以你要学习演奏乐器、削木头或编织——尽管如果我学会了削木头，我可能就没有手指了。

The administration has whittled away regulations in many industries, but President Trump has repeatedly said tech giants like Facebook and Amazon have too much power.

特朗普政府已经削减了对许多行业的监管力度，但特朗普还是反复表示，Facebook和亚马逊这样的科技巨头拥有的权力还是太大。

Now, we're going to have off next week for Thanksgiving break and we're going to further whittle down that list that we're working on.

我们将在下周的感恩节假期休息，也将进一步确定最终名单。