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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Since Active Directory can scale to hundreds of thousands or even millions of objects, it's necessary to carve up the Active Directory database into sections, called naming contexts.
  因为ActiveDirectory可扩展至几十万甚至数百万个对象，所以有必要将ActiveDirectory数据库划分为多个部分（称为命名上下文）。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。