chip at

英 [tʃɪp æt]

美 [tʃɪp æt]

<口>拿…取笑，挑…的毛病

英英释义

verb

• engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface
  1. carve one's name into the bark
  Synonym:carve

双语例句

• You chip away at the problem until somebody comes up with the right answer
  你们要不断地琢磨这个问题直到有人得出正确答案为止。
• If Iran seizes this opportunity, the Iranian people will benefit from rejoining the international community, and we can begin to chip away at the mistrust between our two nations.
  如果伊朗抓住这个机会，伊朗人民将重新加入国际社会并从中受益，我们也将能着手消除我们两国之间的不信任。
• He used a hammer and chisel to chip away at the wall.
  他用榔头和凿子铲墙。
• Any decline in this market could chip away at the buying power of some middle-class Chinese.
  房地产市场逐渐衰弱，可能削弱中国中产阶级的购买力。
• Which are working to chip away at the navel-gazing literary culture of Anglo-American letters.
  他们致力于逐渐改变弥漫于英美文学圈子里的如井底之蛙般的风气。
• Procter Gamble, for instance, found a way to reduce the wrinkles in shirts fresh out of the dryer by starting with a polymer invented by a computer chip expert at a European university.
  举例来说，宝洁公司（ProcterGamble）找到了减少烘干衬衣起皱的办法，而其起点是欧洲一所大学的计算机芯片专家所发明的聚合物。
• As the interconnect delay is the main effect causing the timing convergence problem, it should be considered as to how the interconnect delay affects the performance of the chip at the early design stage.
  深亚微米工艺下连线时延是引起时序收敛问题的主要原因，在芯片的设计初期就要考虑连线设计对芯片性能的影响。
• But in a landmark move this year, the central bank gave them more flexibility in setting benchmark lending and deposit rates, unleashing competitive forces that have already started to chip away at their margins.
  但中国央行今年做出了一项具有里程碑意义的举措，赋予银行在制定基准存贷款利率方面更多的灵活性，释放出竞争方面的压力。这些竞争已经开始导致它们的利润率下降。
• I am trying to chip away at them from various angles: by considering – among other topics – the'doubleness'of Mozart's accompanied sonatas; Mozart's uses of silence in his instrumental music;
  我试图从很多不同的角度来逐步剖析这些：与其他课题放在一起，思考研究莫扎特伴奏奏鸣曲的双重性；
• Rangers armed with silicon putty check the sculpture for cracks every fall but were unable to chip away at the black and green lichen that was spreading across the surface.
  每年秋天，公园管理员都会用硅腻子检查雕像的裂缝，却不能清除掉蔓延覆盖在总统面部的黑色和绿色苔藓。