Usage examples of "whittle down" in English with translation to Russian

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So, instead, they took an existing organism and began to whittle it down. Тогда они взяли существующий организм и начали его обстругивать.
I will never sell my friend down the river for anything in the world. Ни за какие сокровища мира я друга не предам.
For one thing, taxes will quickly whittle a seven-figure income right down to the mid-six figures, perilously close to being within sight of the middle class. Во-первых, налоги быстро уменьшат семизначную зарплату до шестизначной цифры, которая уже будет находиться в опасной близости от поля зрения среднего класса.
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. Я люблю свиней. Собаки смотрят на нас снизу вверх. Кошки - сверху вниз. Свиньи обращаются с нами как с равными.
Whittle away at incentives - and at the market's ability to communicate them through price signals - and you starve the growth engine of its fuel. Уничтожьте стимулы - и способность рынков сообщать о них через ценовые сигналы - и вы оставите двигатель роста без его топлива.
It will bring down trouble on your family. Это принесет несчастье твоей семье.
Two or three's good, then you can whittle away by process of gradual elimination. Хорошо, когда двое или трое, тогда можно действовать методом исключения.
Tom climbed down from the tree. Том слез с дерева.
And intercontinental flights would be an even greater trial without the gas turbines invented in the 1930’s by Frank Whittle (who thought about turbofans, now the dominant commercial design, even before he built the first turbojet) and Joachim Pabst von Ohain. Межконтинентальные авиаперелеты были бы значительно большим испытанием без газовой турбины, изобретенной в 1930-е годы Фрэнком Уиттлом (который думал о турбовентиляторах, являющихся в настоящее время основным коммерческим дизайном, даже прежде чем он создал первый турбореактивный двигатель) и Иоахимом Пабстом фон Охайном.
We went up and down by elevator. Мы поднялись и опустились на лифте.
A key question is why good old competition does not whittle away these profits rapidly. Ключевой вопрос в том, почему старая добрая конкуренция не способна быстро сократить эти прибыли.
She went down on her knees to pray. Она опустилась на колени, чтобы помолиться.
Myths and legends should be handed down from generation to generation. Мифы и легенды должны передаваться из поколения в поколение.
Get down from your horse. Спешьтесь.
We won hands down, because the other players were weak. Мы выиграли, играя кое-как, потому что оппоненты были слабы.
The sun has gone down. Солнце село.
He looked down on the floor. Он опустил взгляд на пол.
Betty turned down Muriel’s offer. Бетти отказалась от предложения Мюриэл.
The server was down. Сервер упал.
It doesn't work so well because the batteries are running down. Это плохо работает потому, что батарейки сели.
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