chip at

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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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• BiCMOS ( Bipolar CMOS) is the technology that CMOS transistors and bipolar transistors are integrated on the same chip at the same time.
  BiCMOS（BipolarCMOS）是CMOS和双极器件同时集成在同一块芯片上的技术，其基本思想是以CMOS器件为主要单元电路，而在要求驱动大电容负载之处加入双极器件或电路。
• 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。
• Her comments were beginning to chip away at his self-confidence.
  她的话开始削弱他的自信心。