2. Yet for the past year or so trade negotiators in Geneva have been chiselling away at the areas of disagreement. 然而过去的几年,在日内瓦的谈判一直在凿除有分歧的领域。
3. Neither are carmakers, despite their long tradition of chiselling away at product costs, immune from feature-creep. 无法逃避特征蠕动的还有汽车制造商—尽管不惜一切减少产品成本是他们一贯的传统。
4. To him his works seemed man-sized, populating his apartment, continually demanding a smoothing here, a chiselling there. 对于他来说,他的诗歌好像是他的房客,很是挑剔,总是要求他通顺通顺这里,修饰修饰那里。