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 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。
• 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 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。
• They want to carve up a neighborhood.
  一定要割一块居民区出来。
• It is important to carve up the bourn between the behavioral offence and potential damage offence.
  作为犯罪既遂形态的两种相互紧密联系的类型，明确行为犯与危险犯之间的界限对于妥当地处罚犯罪人是相当关键的。
• 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。
• International Paris and will be an imperialist powers to carve up the world, establish the rule of imperialism "legitimacy" of the peace conference.
  国际上巴黎和会是一场帝国主义列强重新瓜分世界，确立帝国主义统治合法性的媾和会议。
• Cases like these "will hasten the development of technologies and practices that geographically carve up the Internet", says Jonathan Zittrain, a Harvard professor of Internet governance.
  哈佛大学互联网管理专业教授乔纳森齐特林（jonathanzittrain）表示，这些案件“将加速那些从地理上分割互联网的技术与实践的发展”。
• 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。
• 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。