carve
英 [kɑːv]
美[kɑrv]
- vt. 雕刻；切开；开创
- vi. 切开；做雕刻工作
- n. (Carve)人名；(西、瑞典)卡韦
词态变化
第三人称单数: carves;过去式: carved;过去分词: carved;现在分词: carving;
助记提示
carve..........刻 物....................雕 刻
中文词源
carve 雕刻
来自PIE *sker, 砍，切，刻，词源同graph ,shear ,scribe.
英英释意
- 1. form by carving;
- "Carve a flower from the ice"
- 2. engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface;
- "carve one's name into the bark"
- 3. cut to pieces;
- "Father carved the ham"
英文词源
- carve
- carve: [OE] Originally, carve meant simply ‘cut’. That sense died out in the 16th century, leaving the more specialized ‘cut or incise decoratively’ and later ‘cut up meat at table’. Related words in other Germanic languages, such as Dutch kerven, point to a prehistoric West Germanic *kerfan, which is probably ultimately linked to Greek gráphein ‘write’ (source of English graphic), whose original notion was ‘scratch or incise on a surface’.
=> graphic - carve (v.)
- Old English ceorfan (class III strong verb; past tense cearf, past participle corfen) "to cut, cut down, slay; to carve, cut out, engrave," from West Germanic *kerfan (cognates: Old Frisian kerva, Middle Dutch and Dutch kerven, German kerben "to cut, notch"), from PIE root *gerbh- "to scratch," making carve the English cognate of Greek graphein "to write," originally "to scratch" on clay tablets with a stylus.
Once extensively used, most senses now usurped by cut (v.). Meaning specialized to sculpture, meat, etc., by 16c. Related: Carved; carving. Original strong conjugation has been abandoned, but archaic carven lingers.
考试真题
- 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
- 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
- Completed in 1875, the State Department's south wing was the first to be occupied, with its elegant four-story library ( ' , completed in 1876), Diplomatic Reception Room, and Secretary's office decorated with carved wood, Oriental rugs, and stenciled wall patterns.
出自-2018年考研阅读原文
词组搭配
be carved on tablets of stone
见 stone
carve something out
take something from a larger whole, especially with difficulty
切开，切下
carving out a 5 per cent share of the overall vote.
在所有选票中分得５％的份额。
establish or create something through painstaking effort
开辟；开创
he managed to carve out a successful photographic career for himself.
他终于为自己开辟了成功的摄影事业。
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
West Africa was carved up by the Europeans.
西非曾被欧洲人瓜分。
实用场景例句
- a carved doorway
- 雕花的门道
牛津词典
- The statue was carved out of a single piece of stone.
- 这座雕像是用整块石料雕成的。
牛津词典
- The wood had been carved into the shape of a flower.
- 木头雕成了花朵状。
牛津词典
- She carves in both stone and wood.
- 她既做石雕也做木雕。
牛津词典
- They carved their initials on the desk.
- 他们把自己姓名的首字母刻在书桌上。
牛津词典
- Who's going to carve the turkey?
- 谁来把火鸡切成小块？
牛津词典
- She has carved a place for herself in the fashion world.
- 她已在时装界谋得一席之地。
牛津词典
- He succeeded in carving out a career in the media.
- 他已在传媒界闯出了一片天地。
牛津词典
- People should remember that our proposals aren't carved in stone.
- 人们应记住我们的建议并非板上钉钉。
牛津词典
- Two three-lane roads will be carved through countryside.
- 将要修建两条三车道的公路穿过乡间。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- One of the prisoners has carved a beautiful wooden chess set...
- 有个犯人刻了一副漂亮的木头象棋。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He carves his figures from white pine...
- 他用白松木雕刻出那些人偶。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He carved his name on his desk...
- 他把名字刻在自己的课桌上。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The ornately carved doors were made in the seventeenth century.
- 那些雕饰精美的门制于17世纪。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Andrew began to carve the chicken...
- 安德鲁开始切鸡肉。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Carve the beef into slices.
- 把牛肉切成片。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- She has carved a niche for herself as a comic actor...
- 她作为喜剧演员已经闯出了一片天地。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- They may be loyally standing by their men, but they are also carving their own careers...
- 她们也许忠诚地支持着自己的丈夫，但她们也在开创自己的事业。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Wudi welcomes the friends from the whole earth to invest, develop and carve out.
- 无棣热诚欢迎四海宾朋前来投资 、 开发、创业.
期刊摘选
- Paint line carve also become overseas many favorite Chinese traditional culture of superior collection.
- 漆线雕也成为境外许多喜爱中华民族传统文化的人士收藏的上等佳品.
期刊摘选
- In active solitude, one longs to dig earth, to chisel stone , to carve wood.
- 在积极的孤独中, 我们渴望挖掘泥土, 雕刻木头.
期刊摘选
- Ask the man in the shop to carve the meat up for you.
- 请商店里的那个人帮你把肉切成碎块.
《简明英汉词典》
- He began to carve the steak.
- 他开始切割牛排.
期刊摘选
- I'll carve out whatever time I can this week.
- 这周我会挤出时间过来的.
期刊摘选
- The dark days when imperialism could carve up the world at will are gone for ever.
- 帝国主义可以任意瓜分世界的黑暗时代一去不复返了.
《简明英汉词典》