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。
• 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。
• Life in Color: Green Valleys carve up Kansas'Texaco Hill, part of the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve.
  生活的色彩：绿色。山谷雕刻成上面的堪萨斯州的Texaco丘陵，部分的Tallgrass大草原国家保存。
• 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）。
• 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。
• 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”。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。