1.The government’s majority has been whittled down to eight.
政多数票减少到了八票。
2.Other ways to whittle down banks are thinkable.
另外一些削减银行法是值得考虑。
3.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.