chip at

英 [tʃɪp æt]

美 [tʃɪp æt]

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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

• 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。
• 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。
• At present, many chip manufacturers at home and abroad are committed to the development of multi-core technology. Multi-core chips can increase the frequency of this system and reduce the power consumption at the same time, increase the speed of computing.
  目前，国内外很多芯片生产厂家正在致力于多核技术的研究和发展，多核技术可以降低芯片的频率，从而在降低了系统功耗的同时，提高芯片的运算速度。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Half-heartedness in an entrepreneurial endeavor will chip away at your drive to succeed.
  在创业过程中三心二意，将让你失去成功的动力。
• This thesis studied the properties difference of QDs in water/ air and quantitative method on microarray chip at single molecules level. The main work were as follows: 1.
  本文主要针对单个量子点在水中与空气中荧光特性的差异及单分子水平上的微阵列芯片的定量开展研究。
• 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 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。