be carved on tablets of stone

見 stone

carve something out

take something from a larger whole, especially with difficulty

切開，切下

carving out a 5 per cent share of the overall vote.

在所有選票中分得５％的份額。

establish or create something through painstaking effort

開辟；開創(chuàng)

he managed to carve out a successful photographic career for himself.

他終于為自己開辟了成功的攝影事業(yè)。

carve someone up informal 非正式

slash someone with a knife or other sharp object

（用刀等銳器）砍傷某人

drive aggressively into the path of another driver travelling in the same direction

急速超車，強行超車

carve something up

divide something ruthlessly into separate areas or domains

分割，瓜分

West Africa was carved up by the Europeans.

西非曾被歐洲人瓜分。