chip away at

chip away at

• • 从…抽去实质性的东西
  • 削弱；损害；一点点地除掉：

    He is chipping away at a block marble with a chisel.

    他正在用凿子在大理石上不停地凿。

    The manager kept chipping away at the problem until he had solved it.

    经理一直在琢磨这个问题，直到把它解决为止。

• subject someone to
• ex-voto
• electric blue
• bevel squares
• closured
• anaerobic glycolysis
• Photokina
• nonartesian water
• erotic
• on offer
• by a bare majority
• contra.
• drivings
• wealds
• ponied
• chromic chloride
• self-abnegating
• leakproof
• diplopias
• cardiogenic shock
• telescopic tripod
• kyanites
• Navaho Navajo sandstone
• ollier
• pageboys
• cathode-ray tubes
• stranglehold
• religiosity
• protoderms
• painkilling
• Zulus
• tweeners
• athoss
• in thought
• siddur
• leave sb / sth alone
• oil isoperms
• beseechments
• X-ray holography
• Sverdlovsk
• oba
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• double-dealt
• myodynias
• humivore
• underground ice
• adieu
• vacuoles
• Cetacea
• water boys
• damping magnet
• disposals
• set(或turn)adrift
• touring
• hinderest
• rockroses
• hydraulic motor
• reality containment strategy
• Teletex.
• part poop (或pooper)
• denticare
• mesocytoma
• as opposed to
• pension funds
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• close stool
• micropaedia
• field station
• direct deposit
• sleep it off
• non-systemotology
• stereopsis
• zool.
• strike a match
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• strike (或 touch) lucky
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• turn up the little finger
• match
• bag-and-baggage policy
• rockfest
• Gurkhali
• continae
• incandesced
• old beans
• U.S.C. Supp.
• canoodlers
• get the goose
• on the scent
• equinoctial points
• semifluids
• bounderishly
• Baume scale
• tachygraphies
• servants
• seasickness
• great lion
• conversely
• the old bloke
• be (like) a drug