chip away at
基本解释
- 削弱；损害；一点点地除掉；从…抽去实质性的东西
英汉例句
- Help the team find some aspect of the problem to chip away at.
帮助团队找到问题的一些方面作为切入点。 - Our expectations for our children and our reactions and words to them can give them votes of confidence or chip away at their self-worth.
我们的期望、反应和我们说的话既可以对他们投出信任票也可以削弱其自我价值感。 - Yet so monumental are the deficits that these reductions merely chip away at the task awaiting Mr Osborne if he becomes chancellor this spring.
然而赤字如此庞大，如果奥斯本先生在今春成为大臣，那么那些紧缩在等待他处理的任务面前只会显得微不足道。 - "You are always going to have racism, you are always going to have sexism, you are always going to have classism, that is something that we cannot change in one fell swoop, but with work and efforts like what is being done at IMAN, we chip away at that, one person,one character, one idea at a time."
- That combination would allow Microsoft to chip away at Google's lead, especially in search advertising.
FORBES: A Messy Marriage - Constant specters of unrelenting dangers risk sowing defeatism and chip away at our own morale.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Ridicule: a potent US weapon - Hence, too, a determination to centralise and control decisions that might otherwise chip away at cohesion.
ECONOMIST: The DaimlerChrysler emulsion