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

• Much good had come to Florence since the dim time of struggle between the old patron and the new. The dark days when imperialism could carve up the world at will are gone for ever.
  自从新旧保护神之争的黑暗时代以来，佛罗伦萨得到了许多好处。帝国主义可以任意瓜分世界的黑暗时代一去不复返了。
• 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；
• Carve up the cross-section to some areas by the result of calculation.
  根据初步计算的结果对坝体断面进行分区。
• 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。
• Combine the practice instance, carve up the integer software into several modules, optimize the true speed, vision speed and feeling speed;
  结合水力优化的实际情况，对软件整体进行了模块划分，优化了软件的真实速度、显示速度和感觉速度；
• Kissinger saw Jackson's amendment as an attempt to undermine plans to smoothly carve up the geopolitical pie between the superpowers.
  基辛格认为杰克逊破坏计划的修正案，企图瓜分顺利地缘政治的超级大国之间的馅饼。
• They want to carve up a neighborhood.
  一定要割一块居民区出来。
• 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。
• 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。
• The speed of technological change means that the traditional tools of state used to carve up the world in the 19th century, such as laws and treaties, are often inadequate, if not entirely irrelevant, when applied to this new domain.
  技术变革的速度意味着，19世纪各国用来瓜分世界的传统手段，例如法律和条约，往往不足以应用到这一新领域中，甚至可能全然无用。