SAT词汇的掌握是大家取得SAT考试好成绩的基础，今天小编为大家提供的是SAT真词carve，以下是详细内容。

　　carve

　　vi.切，切开; 雕刻; 创制，开创;

　　vt.切片; 雕塑;

　　第三人称单数：carves过去分词：carved现在进行时：carving过去式：carved

　　柯林斯高阶英汉词典：

　　1.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.

　　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。

　　2.VERB刻写;镌刻;雕饰If you carve writing or a design on an object, you cut it into the surface of the object.

　　He carved his name on his desk...

　　他把名字刻在自己的课桌上。

　　3.VERB切下，割下(肉片)If you carve a piece of cooked meat, you cut slices from it so that you can eat it.

　　Andrew began to carve the chicken...

　　安德鲁开始切鸡肉。

　　4.VERB开创(事业);赢得(工作)If you carve a career or a niche for yourself, you succeed in getting the career or the position that you want by your own efforts.

　　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。

　　Carve out means the same as carve .

　　He is hoping to carve out a much greater role for himself...

　　他希望能争取到更重要的角色。

　　Wood has not had much luck in carving out a career.

　　伍德想干出点名堂来，可是总不能如愿。

　　5.VERB铺(路);修(路)If a road is carved through a place, it is built so that it goes through that place.

　　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。

　　相关词组: carve outcarve up

　　例句：

　　1.Decades later, he remembered this as a moment of humiliation and shame asking the greatest artist of his generation to carve a snowman!

　　几十年后，他还沉浸在那一刻的屈辱和羞愧之中居然叫当下最伟大的艺术家去雕刻雪人!

　　2.Carve out some quiet space for yourself.

　　给你自己开拓一个安静的空间。

　　3.Those of us who carried pocket knives for sharpening pencils ( most of us) might also carve out rings and spirals when we were bored. We had nothing on these guys though.

　　我们当中一些口袋里装着削笔刀的(大多数)会在无聊时在铅笔上刻圈子和螺纹，但却从来没雕过这些。

　　4.To attract settlers, understandably reluctant to leave portugal, to the new realms, the landowners had the authority to carve up their territory into huge estates, some of which were larger than entire provinces back in the motherland.

　　为了吸引定居者自愿离开葡萄牙到新王国去，土地拥有者有权利把他们的土地切分成大的个人地产，有的甚至比他们祖国的整个省都大。