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carve

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Related topics: Sculpture, Cooking
carve /kɑːv $ kɑːrv/ ●●○ verb → calve
1  make object or pattern 雕刻物件或圖案 [transitiveT]AVS to make an object or pattern by cutting a piece of wood or stone 雕，刻 → carving
carve something out of/from something
a statue carved from a single block of marble
獨塊大理石雕成的雕像
carved wooden chairs
木雕椅子
2  cut STH into a surface 把某物刻在表面上 [transitiveT]CUT to cut a pattern or letter on the surface of something 刻〔圖形或字母〕
carve something on/in/into something
Someone had carved their initials on the tree.
有人將自己姓名的首字母刻在樹上。
3  cut meat 切肉 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]DFC to cut a large piece of cooked meat into smaller pieces using a knife 把〔熟肉〕切成小塊；〔從熟肉上〕割下薄片
Carve the meat into slices.
把肉切成片。
Who’s going to carve?
誰來切肉？
► see thesaurus at cut
4  job/position/life 工作/職務/生活 [transitiveT] (also carve out) to succeed in getting the job, position, life etc that you want 成功獲得〔所要的工作、職務、生活等〕
He carved a niche for himself as a writer.
他成功當了一名作家。
She carved out a successful career in the film industry.
她在電影界創出了成功的事業。
He moved to Boston to carve out a new life for himself.
他搬到波士頓去展開新的生活。
5  water/wind 水/風 [transitiveT] if a river, the wind etc carves land or rock, it removes some of it 沖刷；侵蝕
The river had carved channels in the limestone rock.
河水在石灰岩上沖刷出了一條條水道。
→ not be carved in stone at stone1(9)
6  reduce STH 減少某物 [transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] to reduce the size of something by removing some of it 減少，削減
carve something from something
The company carved $1 million from its budget.
公司從預算中削減了100萬美元。
7 carve 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〔含貶義〕
The Ottoman Empire was carved up by Britain and France after World War I.
奧斯曼帝國在第一次世界大戰後被英、法兩國瓜分了。
The two companies are attempting to carve up a large slice of America’s publishing industry between them.
這兩家公司企圖瓜分美國出版業中的一大塊肥肉。
b) British EnglishBrE informal to drive past a car and then suddenly move in front of it so that you are too close 快速超車，快速切入别人的行車線
Examples from the Corpus
carve up• They would carve the world up into principalities and then there would be war again.
Examples from the Corpus
carve• The bust was mutilated in late antiquity, probably by Christians who carved a cross in the forehead.• What's the best way to carve a turkey?• Who's going to carve, Dad or Grandpa?• This plywood structure has grown bigger and bigger, and he has even carved gothic spires on its top.• Shapes of naked half-men half-beasts writhing in some hideous dance were carved on to the mahogany chair.• Her son holding his head beside the big carved pumpkin, mimicking a wide, toothy grin.• In Fujian, workers are carving roads into red clay hills, scaling bamboo scaffolding, hauling piles of stone.• Who's going to carve the turkey?• Michelangelo carved this figure from a single block of marble.• I am lying in the cornfield gazing at clouds being carved up by harp-edged leaves above me.• You start carving while I fetch the vegetables.
carved out ... career• Through hard work and sheer determination, Dennis carved out a career in the building industry.
Origin carve
Old English ceorfan
carve verb
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