Whittle

(noun.) English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996).

(verb.) cut small bits or pare shavings from; 'whittle a piece of wood'.

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• Almost daily he whetted his keen knife and scraped and whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem of apehood. 埃德加·赖斯·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. 世纪发明.
• 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. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• 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. 神奇的知识之书.
• The very knife with which a stick is whittled is a machine. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Don't leave it so close to the cave, the whittling man, who had blue eyes in a dark, good-looking lazy gypsy face, the color of smoked leather, said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The gypsy winked at Robert Jordan and went on whittling. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• It was a figure four trap and he was whittling the crossbar for it. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• He was cutting away on a stick with a knife and he stared at them as they came up, then went on whittling. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The old man was finishing whittling the last of a pile of wedges he had copied from a model Robert Jordan had given him. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.

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