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单词 chisel
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chisel
The men were put over the side with ice saws and chisels to saw and chip away the ice ahead of the bows.
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The chiselled, unperturbed musical themes of the ballet are heard as distinct events, elements of an abstract design that could very easily be a full-fledged text as indecipherable as hieroglyphs.
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They were objects he had carved out of the state of nature for his patrons, and yet they were not like a statue chiseled out of a block of marble.
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We then chiselled out of it and did not give the aid.
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We may also run the danger of being chiselled out of the manufacturing industry in the supersonic era.
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Anything that chisels away at those assumptions can be unwise.
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They have got to be chiselled into the artificial and unnatural conditions of town life.
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There is no doubt that substantial sums have been chiselled from that budget and misused.
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When full employment returned it meant that machinery, chisels and hammers had to be manufactured.
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I can assure him that we are certainly not going to be chiselled out of our fine position in the design and development of aircraft.
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Is it not unfortunate that the support should have been chiselled down as it has been?
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I am still working in the factory where chisels are used.
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If other countries are cheating or chiselling, then we must have it out with them.
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One morning they sent half a dozen men with a lorry, some steps, some hammers and chisels and a few enamelled plates.
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Each year another bit has been chiselled off.
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