1·He used a hammer and chisel to chip away at the wall.
他用锤子和凿子将墙壁一点点凿掉。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·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。
3·But snoring regularly can chip away at the quality of your own sleep.
但是经常性的打鼾就会逐渐影响你自身的睡眠质量了。
4·Its aim is to chip away at your feelings of self-worth and independence.
其目的是蚕食你的感情的自我价值和独立性。
5·One of the deadliest habits that chip away at children's self-confidence is any form of stereotyping.
而蚕食孩子自信的最致命的习惯之一就是各种形式的老套成见。
6·It pretty much represents an entirely new framework that other researchers will chip away at for years to come.
很大程度上，它描绘了一个全新的框架，在接下来的几年，研究者们会从中提炼出一些实质性的东西。
7·First in this plan, Hamas wants to expand the circle of countries that support it and chip away at the bloc opposing it.
首先，在哈马斯的计划里想有更多的国家来支持他并消除不支持他的欧盟国家。
8·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。
9·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。
10·Dumbledore had passed the job of destroying them to him, and obediently he had continued to chip away at the bonds tying not only Voldemort, but himself, to life!
邓布利多把消灭魂器的任务交给了他，他也就顺从地继续削弱那根不仅连接着伏地魔的生命、也连接着他自己生命的纽带！