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

• 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。
• 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。
• The deal is Microsoft's latest attempt to chip away at the dominance of the search leader, Google.
  这项协议是微软公司的最新努力，意在削弱互联网搜索业领头羊谷歌的垄断地位。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。