Other ways to whittle down banks are thinkable.

另一些削减银行的办法是虑的。

The government’s majority has been whittled down to eight.

政府多数票减少到了八票。

Whittled by a half million years of wind and rain, the haunting claystone hills and buttes of Badlands National Park rise above the surrounding sea of grasslands.

历经了50万年的风吹雨打后，恶地国家公园的黏土岩丘陵与孤山矗立在一片草原之海中。