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

• 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。
• They want to carve up a neighborhood.
  一定要割一块居民区出来。
• 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”。
• 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。
• 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。
• While foreigners carve up the market territory ceded by the Japanese, domestic automakers are still viewed as competing mainly on price, despite their recent efforts to move upmarket in a hurry.
  日本车企损失的市场份额被其他外国企业刮分殆尽，而中国本土汽车制造商仍被认为是主要依靠价格优势进行竞争，虽然他们在近期为进攻高端市场做出了一些努力。
• 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。
• How to make use of geologic parameter and production data is important to carve up production and then to study the dynamics of gas reservoir.
  如何利用各层地质参数及生产数据，对正确进行产量劈分以及进行气藏动态研究有重要的意义。
• 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。
• 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。