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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He used a hammer and chisel to chip away at the wall.
  他用榔头和凿子铲墙。
• 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。
• 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。