| 单词 | carve somebody/something ↔ up |
| 释义 | carve somebody/something ↔ up From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcarve somebody/something ↔ up phrasal verb1 to divide land, a company etc into smaller parts and share it between people – used especially to show disapprovalThe Ottoman Empire was carved up by Britain and France after World War I.The two companies are attempting to carve up a large slice of America’s publishing industry between them.2 British English informal to drive past a car and then suddenly move in front of it so that you are too close → carve→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuscarve up• They would carve the world up into principalities and then there would be war again.carve-upˈcarve-up noun [singular] informalSHAREan arrangement between two or more people, governments etc by which they divide something among themselves even though this is wrongExamples from the Corpuscarve-up• None of the recent legislation and carve-up of countryside bodies by the present regime holds anything of good for the public. |
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