I finally managed to whittledown 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。
《牛津词典》
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One of the central intellectual projects in the Constitution of Liberty is the Humean one to use reason to whittledown the claims of reason.
《自由秩序原理》中的核心内容之一也是休谟使用的原因之一去削弱理性的主张。
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Nowak has been busy working on how to whittledown the emergence of life into the simplest possible chemical system that he can describe mathematically.