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。

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。

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。

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。

Well, there's been a steady chipping away at her support basically on a national level but also in regional elections.

基本上来说，她在德国全国范围和地区选举中的支持率一直在不断下滑。

Archaeologists were carefully chipping away at the rock.

【chip】考古学家正小心地在岩石上铲凿。

You are chipping away at me piece by piece, lady.

我正被你千刀万剐呢 小姐。

The European Central Bank is set to start chipping away at its balance sheet.

欧洲央行将开始缩减其资产负债表。

Writers such as Voltaire and Diderot were chipping away at the foundations of society.

【chip】伏尔泰和狄德罗之类的作家一点一点地在动摇社会的根基。

But before that I had probably about a dozen tabs open, various stories I'm working on and chipping away at.

但在那之前， 我可能打开了大约十几个选项卡，我正在处理和削减各种故事。

While Nicholas the First was stamping out Decemberists, chipping away at the Ottoman Empire, and throwing his weight around Europe, matters in his own country were coming to a boil.

尼古拉一世在镇压十二月党人，蚕食奥斯曼帝国的土地，称霸欧洲的时候，国内的事情却乱成了一团糟。

And slowly but surely, those walls that I had built around myself he started chipping away at, and I eventually realized he was one of the good guys.

慢慢地，但肯定的是，我在自己周围筑起的那些墙， 他开始逐渐拆除， 我最终意识到他是好人之一。

These rapid advancements, thanks to the devotion and effort of researchers and subjects around the world, are slowly but surely chipping away at the mysteries of the mind.

由于世界各地的研究人员和学科的奉献和努力，这些快速的进步正在缓慢但肯定地消除心灵的奥秘。

But everywhere we are all chipping away at life itself: housing estate by housing estate, garden by garden, paving stone by paving stone, roll of plastic grass by roll of plastic grass.

但是，我们在各地都在一点点地侵蚀生活本身：一个住宅区接着一个住宅区，一个花园接着一个花园，一块铺路石接着一块铺路石，一卷塑料草接着一卷塑料草。

(Laughter) And then, yeah, I just started kind of chipping away at, you know, what would surround that idea and then kind of built it out from that lyric.

（笑声）然后， 是的，我刚刚开始琢磨，你知道，围绕这个想法的是什么， 然后从那句歌词中构建它。

I kept chipping away at that feeling throughout the days, trying to figure out what kept pushing me when the concepts around good posture so often failed the vibe check.

这些天我一直在努力消除这种感觉，试图找出当关于良好姿势的概念经常未能通过氛围检查时， 是什么一直在推动我。

They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away at my capacity for concentration and contemplation.

它们不但提供了思想的源泉，也塑造了思想的进程。网络似乎粉碎了我专注与沉思的能力。

And that would continue the trend of chipping away at Seattle's-and the world's--natural spaces, leaving just tiny pocket parks and green-but-empty spaces that offer little real value to wildlife, plants or people.

这将延续西雅图乃至世界自然空间的趋势，只留下狭小的袖珍公园和绿色但空旷的空间，对野生动物、植物或人类几乎没有真正的价值。

If the anti-abortion movement has been chipping away at the edges over these 40 years, while everybody has been focused in Washington and keeping the Supreme Court out of this, are they making progress?

如果反堕胎运动在这 40 年里一直在逐渐缩小，而每个人都把注意力集中在华盛顿，不让最高法院介入，他们是否取得了进展？