- (British English) (also French fry, fry North American English, British English)[usually plural]
a long thin piece of potato fried in oil or fat 油炸土豆條；炸薯條 
He was eating a burger and chips. 他在吃漢堡和薯條。 a bag of chips 一袋炸薯條 All main courses are served with chips or baked potato. 所有的主菜都配有炸土豆條或烤土豆。
Extra ExamplesTopics Fooda2All he'll eat is chips. 他只吃炸薯條。 I never cook anything grand—we live on chips and baked beans. 我從來不做什麽象樣的飯菜，只靠吃炸薯條和烤豆。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- greasy
- frozen
- oven-ready
- …
- bag
- plate
- eat
- have
- live on
- …
- pan
- shop
- and chips
- with chips
- (also potato chip)(both North American English)(British English crisp, potato crisp)
a thin round slice of potato that is fried until hard then dried and eaten cold. Chips are sold in bags and are made to taste of many different foods. 油炸土豆片；炸薯片 
a bag of chips 一袋炸薯條
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- potato
- tortilla
- bag
- chips and dip
- chips and salsa
- (also tortilla chip)
a small flat hard piece of food, often like a triangle in shape, made from maize 芯片： 用玉米制成的一塊扁平小硬食品，通常呈三角形， - = microchip
computer/graphics/memory chips 計算機/圖形/存儲芯片 the world's biggest chip maker 世界上最大的芯片制造商 chip technology 芯片科技
Extra ExamplesAdvances in technology have made it possible to pack even more circuits on a chip. 技術的進步使一片芯片可以集成更多的電路。 An electronic chip could be implanted in his brain. 他的大腦中可以植入一個電子芯片。 The computer has an integrated graphics chip running at 333 MHz. 這台計算機的集成圖形芯片運行速度爲 333 兆赫。 This computer uses the DX chip. 這台計算機用DX 芯片。 This notebook uses a chip designed for mobile computing. 這台筆記本電腦用的是專爲移動計算設計的芯片。 a Pentium-compatible chip set 與奔騰兼容的芯片組 a chip containing the coding devices 含有編碼裝置的芯片
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- computer
- silicon
- graphics
- …
- make
- manufacture
- produce
- …
- contain something
- run
- design
- technology
- set
- …
- on a/the chip
- chip and PIN
the place from which a small piece of wood, glass, etc. has broken from an object （木頭、玻璃等的）缺口，缺損處 
a small piece of wood, glass, etc. that has broken or been broken off an object （木頭、玻璃等破損後留下的）碎屑，碎片，碎渣 chips of wood 碎木屑 chocolate chip cookies (= biscuits containing small pieces of chocolate) 碎粒巧克力餅幹 The gutted raw fish are smoked slowly over wood chips. 去除了内髒的生魚在碎木屑火堆上方慢慢地熏。
a small flat piece of plastic used to represent a particular amount of money in some types of gambling （作賭注用的）籌碼 a poker chip 撲克牌戲籌碼。
- (also chip shot)
(in golf, football (soccer), etc. 高爾夫球、足球等 an act of hitting or kicking a ball high in the air so that it lands within a short distance （高爾夫球）近穴擊球，切削擊球；（足球）撮球 She left herself with a short chip to the green. 她給自己留了一點零頭。
see also blue-chip
Word OriginMiddle English: related to Old English forcippian ‘cut off’.
Idioms
cash in your chips
- (informal)
to die 死 He cashed in his chips last summer aged 65. 去年夏天，65歲的他兌現了自己的籌碼。
a chip off the old block
- (informal)
a person who is very similar to their mother or father in the way that they look or behave （相貌或性格）酷似父親或母親的人
have a chip on your shoulder (about something)
- (informal)
to be sensitive about something that happened in the past and become easily offended if it is mentioned because you think that you were treated unfairly （因受過委屈而變得）敏感，好生氣 He has a real chip on his shoulder about being adopted. 他對被收養一事非常不滿。
have had your chips
- (British English, informal)
to be in a situation in which you are certain to be defeated or killed 注定要失敗（或完蛋）
when the chips are down