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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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”。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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）。
• 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。
• 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。