chip off

基本解释

A piece was chipped off the piano when we moved house.
我们搬家时钢琴碰掉了一小块。
THE veneer of bipartisan co-operation that has coated Barack Obama’s efforts at health reform this year, already wearing thin, was chipped off completely this week.
今年奥巴马一直在为已经搁浅的医疗改革做出努力，而本周这种虚伪的两党合作已彻底破裂告终。
The surface of both sides has beautiful ripples and, when you look closely, you can see that these are the scars from its making, where the flakes of the flint have been carefully chipped off.
细细观察下来，就可以看出那是打磨过程中留下来的。当年工匠精工细磨，慢慢地在这燧石片上敲下片片碎石，就留下了道道的痕迹。

Mr Berdymukhamedov chipped off just enough from Niyazov's personality cult to make some space for himself.
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In their simplest form, a piece of wood is spun around a fixed axis, and pieces of the material are chipped off with a blade.
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The only weakness we spotted with the build was the paint job: we saw a device that had been used by an HTC person as their regular phone and the paint had chipped off at the corners to reveal the aluminum glistening underneath.
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