Efforts are now underway to chip away at these crime-enabling mechanisms.

人们正在努力削弱这些使犯罪得逞的机制。

Now imagine chipping away that wood with your face.

现在想象一下用你的脸去砍木头。

I'm still having to chip away.

而且还得坚持不懈。

Carbon-conscious design can certainly chip away at cement's emissions.

碳意识设计当然可以减少水泥的排放。

This is the change of gradually chipping away excess stone.

这种改变是一点点凿掉多余的石头。

Because what you are doing is gradually chipping away the excess stone.

因为你所做的是一点点凿掉多余的石头。

A crew chipping away at a major project in CNN's Call to earth.

在CNN的《呼唤地球》栏目中，一名工作人员正在努力完成一个重大项目。

The problem is these weren't chipped and chipped and chipped away. They were sliced.

问题是这些不是缺口，缺口，缺口。它们是切片的。

A small number of randomised experimental studies are chipping away at the causal question.

少数随机实验研究正在逐步解决因果问题。

As NPR's Tamara Keith explains, the president says the agency is chipping away at the problems.

据NPR新闻的塔玛拉·基思报道，总统表示该机构正在逐步解决问题。

Chipping away through the gratefulness, creating more positive channels, becoming more of a benefit finder over time.

要借由感恩走出阴影，创造更多积极的渠道，逐渐成为积极者。

That meant learning how to produce doctors who could help chip away at those disparities moving forward.

这意味着要学习如何培养能够帮助消除这些不平等的医生。

The agency's focus appears to be on the idea of chipping away at a target with multiple hits.

该局把研究重点放在如何让多枚MOP就目标的同一点进行攻击。

I didn't see how many owners would chip away at their land until there was nothing viable left.

我没意识到多少庄园主会渐渐变卖土地直到再无可用。

If you've ever swung an axe against a tree, you know chipping away wood takes a lot of force.

如果你用过斧头砍向一棵树，你会知道削木头需要很大的力气。

The Romans kept chipping away at the Carthaginian Empire. Soon Sardinia and Corsica became a new Roman province joining Sicily.

罗马人在持续分裂迦太基帝国，但很快撒丁岛和科西嘉岛成为继西西里之后罗马的新省份。

The first approach - the gradual approach, like water wearing down stone, chipping away gradually slowly taking our time.

第一种方式，是渐进式的，好像滴水穿石，要花时间的一点一点，慢慢的。

Incivility chips away at people and their performance.

粗鲁无礼会削弱人和他们的表现。

I guess we start chipping away now.

我想我们得砸墙了。

Unless you start to chip away at it.

你可以一点一点地驳斥。