Carve

(verb.) cut to pieces; 'Father carved the ham'.

(verb.) form by carving; 'Carve a flower from the ice'.

(verb.) engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface; 'carve one's name into the bark'.

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• Now did it take a hundred years of patient toil to carve the Sphynx? 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He could carve a bit, and gild and frame, and do odd jobs. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Oh, that I were younger, Maurice, and with you by my side, we would go to South America and carve out a kingdom. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• They did paint, and they did carve in marble, one historical scene, and one only, (of any great historical consequence. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• If we are ruined, you can carve and take charge of the stable, and I can be a governess to Lady Jane's children. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I'd carve her name as often as she liked. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• We might carve them in holly-wood, playing against a background of green leaves. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• There are names, and Christian symbols, and prayers, or sentences expressive of Christian hopes, carved upon nearly every sarcophagus. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Hence the carved names. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He was the hero of her imagination, the image carved by love in the unchanged texture of her heart. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I have lived my last winter, and the date of this year, 2092, will be carved upon my tomb. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Raphael, Angelo, Canova--giants like these gave birth to the designs, and their own pupils carved them. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I have two water-wagtails, carved in wood, and painted--perhaps you have seen it? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• A similar process of embossing, was devised in Paris and called Xyloplasty, by which steam-softened wood is compressed in carved moulds, which give it bas-relief impressions. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Complicated Ornamental Wood-cutting and Carving Machines. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Inside was a large room in which fifty workers were carving or moulding. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Rest the eyes when they hurt, and as far as possible do close work, such as writing, reading, sewing, wood carving, etc. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Another Englishman, Braithwaite, in 1840, invented a most attractive carving process in which, instead of cutting tools, he employed _burning_ as his agent. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• No; I could manage the carving-knife better. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The carving of stone by machinery is now a sister branch of wood carving. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Here, guard, pick up that gentleman's carving-knife. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

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