chip away at

基本解釋

Help the team find some aspect of the problem to chip away at.
幫助團(tuán)隊(duì)找到問(wèn)題的一些方麪作爲(wèi)切入點(diǎn)。
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.
我們的期望、反應(yīng)和我們說(shuō)的話既可以對(duì)他們投出信任票也可以削弱其自我價(jià)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.
然而赤字如此龐大，如果奧斯本先生在今春成爲(wèi)大臣，那麼那些緊縮在等待他処理的任務(wù)麪前衹會(huì)顯得微不足道。

"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.
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Constant specters of unrelenting dangers risk sowing defeatism and chip away at our own morale.
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Hence, too, a determination to centralise and control decisions that might otherwise chip away at cohesion.
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