carve, curvy women, carve up, unlock, skinny, latkes. carve someone up. carve something up. curvaceous（形容詞）中文意思是「曲線玲瓏的」、「豐滿有致的」或「身材曲線優美的」。Evoking curvaceous bodies, the Absolute Tower (2012) in Mississauga, Ontario, was MAD’s first major international competition win.

Evoking curvaceous bodies, the Absolute Tower (2012) in Mississauga, Ontario, was MAD’s first major international competition win. A second followed.Credit...Iwan Baan

Elizabeth Warren's plan to break-up today's tech titans—Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple—could unlock vast value
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Union Church is set to be another casualty in a trend of historic buildings being transformed into high rise-apartment blocks in Hong Kong - a small, densely-packed city with the world’s least affordable housing market. HKFP speaks to preservationists and congregation members upset by the deal with Henderson Land.

"It's clearly abuse," Katty Law of the Western and Central Concern Group told HKFP. "[I]t's carving up the profits with the developer. I know a church has to fundraise and control its funds, but it shouldn't use land to make money like this."

God or Mammon? Who gains when Hong Kong's historic churches are turned into blocks of flats | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

About two decades ago, Rachel, a lapsed Christian, found herself on the wrong bus. When she alighted in the Mid-levels, she heard church bells ringing. She turned around and saw the Union Church, with its 1950s granite sanctuary and belfry tucked between an apartment tower and the Peak Tramway on Ke...

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Many Kurds feel caught between a guerrilla movement fighting for minority rights and local autonomy and a Turkish government that says it wants peace, but fears carving up the country.

carve-up

noun

BRITISHinformal

1. a ruthless division of something into separate areas or parts.

   
   

   "the carve-up of the brewing industry by vested interests"

carve-up

noun
noun

A sharing-out, esp. of spoils, often in a dishonest way. (1935 —) .
Times Is the selection of justices of the peace in Britain...a 'political carve-up', as alleged by some of the more vociferous of the system's opponents? (1963).

[From to carve up (see carve verb 2).]


carve up

vb (tr, adverb)

1. to cut (something) into pieces

2. to divide or dismember (a country, land, etc.)

n carve-up

1. Informal an act or instance of dishonestly prearranging the result of a competition

2. Slang the distribution of something, as of booty

Karl Lagerfeld weighs in on skinny models debate

Iconic fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has defended the use of ultra-thin
models on the runway, telling a German news magazine that "no one wants to
see curvy women."

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 carve

verb

[with object]

• 1cut (a hard material) in order to produce an aesthetically pleasing object or design:the wood was carved with runes (as adjective carved)bookcases of carved oak
• produce (an object) by cutting and shaping a hard material:the altar was carved from a block of solid jade
• produce (an inscription or design) by cutting into hard material:an inscription was carved over the doorway figurativethe river carved a series of gorges into the plain

• 2cut (cooked meat) into slices for eating.
• cut (a slice of meat) from a larger piece.

• 3 Skiing make (a turn) by tilting one’s skis on to their edges and using one’s weight to bend them so that they slide into an arc.

Phrasal Verbs

carve something out

• 1take something from a larger whole, especially with difficulty:carving out a 5 percent share of the overall vote

• 2establish or create something through painstaking effort:he managed to carve out a successful photographic career for himself

carve someone up

informal slash someone with a knife or other sharp object.

carve something up

divide something ruthlessly into separate areas or domains:West Africa was carved up by the Europeans

Origin:

Old English ceorfan 'cut, carve'; related to Dutch kerven

 curvy

adj. - 彎曲的, 曲線美的

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 曲線の美しい, 曲がった, 曲線美の


The adjective CURVY has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1: having curves
Synonym: curvey
Meaning #2: (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves
Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, voluptuous, well-endowed

curvaceous（形容詞）中文意思是「曲線玲瓏的」、「豐滿有致的」或「身材曲線優美的」。 [1, 2]

基本字義與發音

詞性：形容詞 (adj.)
發音：英式 /kɜːˈveɪ.ʃəs/，美式 /kɝːˈveɪ.ʃəs/（KK音標：/kɝˈveɪʃəs/）
字源：由字根 curve（彎曲）加上形容詞字尾組成，字面上有「充滿曲線的」之意。 [1, 2]

主要用法與例句

形容女性身材：用來形容女性體態豐滿、凹凸有致、具有吸引人的優美曲線。
• 例句：She is famed by the media for her curvaceous figure.（她因凹凸有致的身材而受到媒體關注。） [1, 2, 3]
形容物體外型：也可以用來形容物體、建築或設計具有流暢、優美的弧線或曲線形狀。
• 例句：The highway follows a curvaceous path northward.（這條公路向北延伸，呈現出蜿蜒的曲線。） [1, 2, 3]

常見同義字

curvy（有曲線的、玲瓏的）
voluptuous（豐滿性感的）
buxom（豐滿健康的） [1, 2, 3]

Potato pancake

Potato pancakes are shallow-fried pancakes of grated or ground potato, flour and egg, often flavored with grated onion or garlic and seasoning. Wikipedia