一中英惯用例句:
  • 微软公司（Microsoft）一位主管Excel的产品经理希金斯说："我们正逐渐地削弱一个首要的竞争者。在这一行业里市场占有率颇为重要。"
    "We're chipping away at a very dominant competitor where market share means a lot, " said Peter Higgins, a Microsoft product manager in charge of Excel.
  • 他用锤子一点一点地击碎那块石头。
    He was chipping away at the rock with a hammer.
  • 他开始工作，先把碎了的表层一点一点地凿去。
    He began by chipping away the broken surface.
  • 他一直在琢磨这一问题，直到把它解决为止。
    He kept chipping away at the problem until he had solved it.
  • 拉妮雅一直在打破约旦的某些禁忌。虽然处事低调但却态度坚决；
    In a low? key but determined way, Rania is chipping away at certain Jordanian taboos.
  • 经过好大一番功夫，彼得终于把挡门的石头捣成碎片了。
    After a great deal of effort, Peter succeeded in chipping away the stone that held the door open.
  • 微软公司（microsoft）一位主管excel的产品经理希金斯说：“我们正逐渐地削弱一个首要的竞争者。在这一行业里市场占有率颇为重要。”
    "We're chipping away at a very dominant competitor where market share means a lot," said Peter Higgins, a Microsoft product manager in charge of Excel.
  • 也许他也已察觉到，得罪一个好房客是愚蠢的，语气便稍稍委婉些，提起了他以为我会有兴趣的话头——谈到我目前住处的优点与缺点。
    He--probably swayed by prudential consideration of the folly of offending a good tenant--relaxed a little in the laconic style of chipping off his pronouns and auxiliary verbs, and introduced what he supposed would be a subject of interest to me--a discourse on the advantages and disadvantages of my present place of retirement.
  • 一堆木屑
    A bed of wood chips.
  • 我还要一些炸薯条。
    I'll also have some fried potato chips.
  • 一种可靠的投资是买值钱而热门的股票，或者更可靠的一种买安全的金边证券。
    A safe investment is blue chips or, better still, gilt-edged securities.
  • 我要一杯咖啡、一份鱼与薯条。
    Yes, I want some coffee and some fish and chips, please.
  • 现在天就要晴了，一只麻雀已开始喳喳地叫。
    Now it is clearing up , and a sparrow is beginning to chirp.
  • “如果生活给你柠檬，就做柠檬汁”。当他们检查自己那被撞坏的汽车或者地震破坏的房屋时，会叽叽喳喳不停地说:“我一直就讨厌那个厨房。”
    "If life hands you lemons, make lemonade", they'll chirp as they examine the smashed wreck of their car or the earthquake~ravaged ruin of their house; "I always hated that kitchen.'
  • 发出一串唧唧声
    To utter a series of chirps.
  • 老亨利自从娶了那个轻的姑娘后一直非常活泼。
    Old Henry has been as chirpy as a cricket since he married that young girl.
  • 他用凿子把那块石头刻成了一个女人像。
    He cut the figure of a woman out of that rock with a chisel.
  • 他把那块石头凿成一个女人像。
    He chiseled that rock into the figure of a woman.
  • 錾刀一种尖端象凿子的古代燧石工具
    An early flint tool with a head like a chisel.
  • 用来凿管道或凹槽有像木钵一样的刃片的凿子。
    a chisel with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves.
  • 公司找到了一个办法把他的超时加班费克扣掉。
    The firm found a way to chisel him out of his overtime pay.
  • 凿子有一方头的工具，如石匠用的凿子
    A tool, such as a stonemason's chisel, that has a squared head.
  • 迪安有一个很好的推销区，可是他老担心有人会暗中侵入。
    Dean has a good sales territory but is always afraid that someone may chisel in on it.
  • 用凿子把这塞子一头削尖点，使它能塞进孔里。
    Taper the plug off a bit with a chisel so that it will sit into the hole.
  • 用凿子把塞子的一头削掉一点，使它能塞进洞里。
    Taper the plug off a bit with the chisel so that it will fit into the hole.
  • 注意那家伙。如果你不小心的话，他会骗走你的每一分钱。
    Watch that guy. He'll chisel out of every penny you've got if you're not careful!
  • 亚当的老板有一个很好的推销区，可是常常担心有人会暗中侵入他的推销区。
    Adam's boss had a good sales territory but was always afraid that someone might chisel in( on it).
  • 木槌一种手柄较短的锤子，通常具有木制的圆头，主要用以敲击凿子或敲击契子
    A short-handled hammer, usually with a cylindrical head of wood, used chiefly to drive a chisel or wedge.
  • 鹤嘴锄，丁字镐一种鹤嘴锄，尤指一头尖而另一头有可割断根的凿边
    A pick, especially with one end of the head pointed and the other end with a chisel edge for cutting through roots.
  • 撬棍一种铁制或钢制的直棒，有楔形的工作端头，通常略微弯曲并成叉状，用作撬杆或杠杆
    A straight bar of iron or steel, with the working end shaped like a chisel and often slightly bent and forked, used as a lever.
  • 他在门上凿了个孔，以便装一把新锁。
    He chiseled a hole in the door to fit a new lock.
  • 这种石头是由湖底掘出来的；有时如果它们的线条有改正的必要，那么，人们就会把它们琢磨一下，使它们十全十美，然后再放进水里浸一年多，让那些斧凿的痕迹给水流的波动洗掉。
    Such rocks were dug out of the bottom of the lake, and sometimes when something was needed to correct their lines, they would be chiseled until they were perfect and let down into the water again for a year or so, so that the chisel marks might be obliterated by the movement of water.