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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In winter, hit Australia's highest ski slopes at Charlotte Pass or carve up the snow at Thredbo and Perisher Blue.
  冬季，前往夏洛特山口澳大利亚最高的滑雪道，或在铁擂堡和蓝派瑞雪的雪道上飞驰而下。
• 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。
• Again with the Economic Analysis of the distribution of benefits of our professional sports, pointed out that the Association too much to carve up the market benefits greatly inhibited the development of professional sports.
  再次用经济学分析了我国职业体育的利益分配模式，指出协会过多的瓜分市场利益极大地抑制了职业体育的发展。
• 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。