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单词 carve something out
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carve something out

1Take something from a larger whole, especially with difficulty: the company hopes to carve out a greater share of the $20 bn market...
  • But since it's difficult to carve a conspiracy theory out of events as straightforward as those, he chooses to misrepresent what occurred.
  • A casualty of the post-war mania for partitioning flats, the space had been carved up into claustrophobic rooms.
  • Train services were carved up into 25 franchises and offered to new companies on seven-year contracts.
2Establish or create something through painstaking effort: he managed to carve out a successful photographic career for himself...
  • Paramount Classics was created and carved a niche out for itself in the manically frugal Jon Dolgen era where they did as was demanded of them… they earned a decent return on investment and never lost the company money.
  • At half-time yesterday, you would have been hard pressed to find anyone at Malleny Park who would have bet money on Boroughmuir carving a win out of this match.
  • This idea of the rugged individualist, the person who takes care of business on their own, has their own gun and protects their own family and carves a life out of the wilderness.
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