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

• If we admit that people need advice, we chip away at the foundations of most economic thought.
  如果我们承认人们需要建议，那么我们就动摇了大多数经济学思想的基础。
• Her comments were beginning to chip away at his self-confidence.
  她的话开始削弱他的自信心。
• Such a move is unthinkable in all but the very long term. But this highly-sensitive issue might chip away at the dollar, as witnessed by the attention given to reports this week that trade between Brazil and China might soon be transacted in real and renminbi.
  但这个高度敏感的话题可能削弱美元地位，本周的新闻报道引起的关注就见证了这一点。报道称，巴西和中国的贸易不久可能以里亚尔和人民币计价。
• Polyester chip supply at present but high in the lower disk access is also cautious, markets agglutination.
  目前聚酯切片货源不多但下游高位接盘也谨慎，市场表现胶着。
• 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；
• If done on a large scale, this would chip away at the state banking monopoly.
  如果大批贷款公司变身为银行，将会打破国有银行所处的垄断地位。
• Instead, the closer in quality and price the knockoffs are to the genuine products, the more the counterfeit goods chip away at the company's sales, say analysts.
  分析师们称，仿冒品在质量和价格上越接近正品，品牌商的销售受到的冲击就越大。
• Motorola is developing a digital tablet device that will allow users to watch television on it as it joins other tech companies aiming to chip away at a market established by Apple's popular iPad.
  摩托罗拉（Motorola）正开发一款数字平板设备，用户将能通过该设备收看电视，该公司由此加入其他科技公司的行列，以求打入由苹果（Apple）广受欢迎的iPad平板电脑开创的市场。
• The idea is tempting because such a quantum chip seems so attractively similar to a traditional microelectronics chip and at the same time so radically new.
  这个想法很诱人，因为一方面量子晶片实在很像传统的微电子晶片，可是却又极端新颖。
• IBM, collaborating with Germany's Infineon Technologies, has developed a one megabit ( million bit) MRAM chip at its laboratories in East Fishkill, New York.
  IBM与德国英飞凌技术公司合作，在其位于纽约东费什基尔的实验室开发出一块1兆（百万位）MRAM芯片。