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

总统候选人现在已经少了，而之前还有很多。

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。

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

正如意大利一贯作风，一项骇人刑罚逐渐缩水，最后变成温和责备。

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栅栏岬，由于侵蚀和冰川碰撞而逐渐缩小，成为了苏必利尔湖上令人惊叹栖木。

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

而后选票被送出去, 提名经由学院成员削。

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.

选活动少和党团临近，候选人实际上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上过体育中心节目还破过吉尼斯世界纪录人，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，我把有实力候选人缩到12人。

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

时间推移，我们慢慢筛选，并在上周五挑选了两个。

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

在初选中，选民可以削参选候选人名单。

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《尼伯龙根指环》长达十四个小时剧情压缩成六分钟精彩片段，这是多么了不起壮举啊！这也是查克·琼斯动画中使用音乐一个很好例子。

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.

从表面上看，美国大公司经常利用任何一个漏洞削税单，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最好方法是——弱压力并找出是什么导致压力根源。

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，通过使用避孕药具和清除马匹方式，将马群数量少到50到104匹。

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.

我们将在下周感恩节假期休息，也将进一步确定最终名单。

A panel of experts will then whittle the field down to a shortlist of semi-finalists who will then be voted on by YouTube viewers.

专家小组将从中选出进入半决赛决选名单，而后这些选手表演成绩将由YouTube观众投票决定。

And never since the founders four Were whittled down to three Have the houses been united As they once were meant to be.

如果没有四祖先 被削到三个这个房子怎么合 他们一度想办法。

One study determined that hordes of zombies would whittle down earth's population to just a few hundred survivors in only 100 days.

一项研究表明，成群结队僵尸将在短短100天内将地球上人口少到只剩几百个幸存者。

Confronted with the unknown, human beings generate a chaotic mass of hypotheses that gradually gets whittled down through observation and experiment.

面对未知，人类提出大量不合理假设，再通过观察和实验逐渐剥茧抽丝得出结论。

The number of contenders will be whittled down to two before lawmakers break up for the summer recess on July 21.

在7月21日国员夏季休之前，选人数将少到2人。