carve up

英 [ˈkɑːv ʌp]

美 [ˈkɑːrv ʌp]

拆散; 分割; 瓜分

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 拆散;分割;瓜分
  If you say that someonecarvessomethingup, you disapprove of the way they have divided it into small parts.
  1. He has set about carving up the company which Hammer created from almost nothing...
     他已经开始动手拆分这家几乎是哈默白手起家创办的公司。
  2. They have begun carving the country up like a pie.
     他们已经开始像切馅饼一样瓜分这个国家。
• PHRASAL VERB (用刀)割伤，砍伤
  Tocarvesomeoneupmeans to hurt them badly using a knife.
  1. He wanted to go into the street and carve someone's face up.
     他想上街去把别人的脸刮花。

英英释义

verb

• separate into parts or portions
  1. divide the cake into three equal parts
  2. The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I
  Synonym:dividesplitsplit upseparatedissever

双语例句

• They want to carve up a neighborhood.
  一定要割一块居民区出来。
• Three years later what presented in my mind's eye was the inner structure, not the whole ox; and now instead of careful observation, I carve up an ox completely according to my sense.
  三年后，脑中呈现的是牛的内部构造，而不再是一头整牛了，现在不用仔细观察，只凭心神感受牛，就能把它分解。
• Stockbrokers, hedge fund managers, bankers, lawyers and property investors have all donned white coats to learn how to carve up the cow, pig and lamb carcasses that hang from hooks in the chilled room at the back of the shop.
  证券经纪人、对冲基金经理、银行家、律师和房地产投资者全都身穿白色外罩，学习如何切割悬挂在该店后面冷气室钩子上的母牛、猪和羊羔的尸体。
• They forcibly occupied leased territory, divided into spheres of influence, an attempt to carve up China, China as a colony changed.
  他们强占租借地，划分势力范围，企图瓜分中国，变中国为殖民地。
• In winter, hit Australia's highest ski slopes at Charlotte Pass or carve up the snow at Thredbo and Perisher Blue.
  冬季，前往夏洛特山口澳大利亚最高的滑雪道，或在铁擂堡和蓝派瑞雪的雪道上飞驰而下。
• There are radical variations in the way languages carve up the spectrum of visible light;
  语言中划分可视光线的光谱中存在根本变化；
• One way to carve up a market is to identify preference segments.
  一种划分市场的方式是识别偏好细分市场。
• Life in Color: Green Valleys carve up Kansas'Texaco Hill, part of the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve.
  生活的色彩：绿色。山谷雕刻成上面的堪萨斯州的Texaco丘陵，部分的Tallgrass大草原国家保存。
• They have begun carving the country up like a pie.
  他们已经开始像切馅饼一样瓜分这个国家。
• He had described Japan as a potentially aggressive nation that might join with others to carve up China.
  当初他把日本描绘为参与瓜分中国的潜在的侵略国。