take something from a larger whole, especially with difficulty切开,切下establish or create something through painstaking effort开辟;开创
carve someone up informal 非正式
slash someone with a knife or other sharp object(用刀等锐器)砍伤某人drive aggressively into the path of another driver travelling in the same direction急速超车,强行超车
carve something up
divide something ruthlessly into separate areas or domains分割,瓜分
英语四级真题
That way, people still get the presentation of the dishes as they were designed, but can carve them up however they like," Hill says.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文
英语六级真题
From self-service checkout lines at supermarket to industrial robots armed with saws and taught to carve up animal bodies in slaughter-houses, these ever-more-intelligent machines are now not just assisting workers but actually kicking them out of their jobs.
出自-2012年12月阅读原文
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
VERB
雕;刻
If you carve an object, you make it by cutting it out of a substance such as wood or stone. If you carve something such as wood or stone into an object, you make the object by cutting it out.