单词 | carve somebody/something ↔ up |
释义 | carve somebody/something ↔ upcarve somebody/something ↔ up phrasal verbphr v a) to divide land, a company etc into smaller parts and share it between people – used especially to show disapproval 瓜分,分割〔含贬义〕 The Ottoman Empire was carved up by Britain and France after World War I. 奥斯曼帝国在第一次世界大战后被英、法两国瓜分了。 The two companies are attempting to carve up a large slice of America’s publishing industry between them. 这两家公司企图瓜分美国出版业中的一大块肥肉。 b) British EnglishBrE informal to drive past a car and then suddenly move in front of it so that you are too close 快速超车,快速切入别人的行车线 Examples from the Corpus carve up• They would carve the world up into principalities and then there would be war again. → carve somebody/something ↔ up at carve(1) |
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