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。
• Invasion of China during this period the way the Western powers in the political tide on the first and then gradually started to carve up the implementation of the "China Zhi-Hua" policy;
  这一时期西方列强侵华的方式，在政治上先是掀起瓜分狂潮后又逐渐实行“以华治华”政策；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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”。