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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• If one firm cut its prices, destroying the unspoken deal to carve up the market, it would succeed only in starting a price war.
  即使一家投资银行通过降价来掠夺市场，打破了之前默认的协议，那么它也只可能在随之引发的价格战中获胜。
• 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。
• Because of good land has been strong in the pre-developer "carve up" the.
  由于良好的土地已被强大的前开发商“瓜分”了。
• 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。