chip at

1. 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。
2. He used a hammer and chisel to chip away at the wall.
   他用榔头和凿子铲墙。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. 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；
11. 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。
12. Her comments were beginning to chip away at his self-confidence.
    她的话开始削弱他的自信心。
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. 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。
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. 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。
21. As the development of FPGA technique, the computing ability of chip increases at a very fast speed.
    随着FPGA技术的快速发展，芯片计算速度也随之飞速上升。
22. 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。
23. 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。
24. Most embedded system develop manufacturers, transplant uClinux to integrated ARM hardware of chip at the platform, to customize their own special-purpose embedded system.
    大多数嵌入式系统开发厂商，都将uClinux移植到集成ARM芯片的硬件平台上，来定制自己的专用嵌入式系统。
25. The sensor measures the flow velocity by the change of heat power which keep the chip at constant temperature.
    该传感器利用维持芯片温度恒定所需的加热功率的变化作为流速的量度。
26. The writers of the article research and analyse a kind of SOC, and design a ruggedized embedded computer with this chip, at last introduce the architecture, capability, characteristic and applications of this computer.
    本文作者对一种SOC芯片进行了研究和分析，并以这种芯片为核心设计了一种加固型嵌入式计算机；介绍了这种计算机的结构、性能、特点以及应用领域。
27. 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。
28. 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。

verb

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

   Synonym:    carve