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

• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Meanwhile, new highways and tunnels carve up the West Bank joining up the Israeli colonies.
  与此同时，布满西岸的新公路和隧道，将以色列定居点连接起来。
• 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。
• 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 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。