A carve-up is an arrangement in which two or more people, companies, or governments divide something among themselves even though it is wrong — they split the prize and leave out the people who should have had a say. You hear it in news and politics: a carve-up of land after a war, or of a market so each company keeps its piece and nobody has to compete. The tidy word would be sharing; the real feeling is they helped themselves.

A carve-up is an arrangement in which two or more people, companies, or governments divide something among themselves even though it is wrongcarve-up 是指兩個以上的人、公司或政府，私自把某樣東西分掉的安排，即使這樣做不對， they split the prize and leave out the people who should have had a say他們把好處分了，卻把原本應該有發言權的人排除在外。 You hear it in news and politics你會在新聞和政治裡聽到這個字： a carve-up of land after a war, or of a market so each company keeps its piece and nobody has to compete像戰後瓜分土地，或是瓜分市場、讓每家公司都分到一塊、不用競爭。 The tidy word would be sharing好聽一點的說法是 sharing（分享）， the real feeling is they helped themselves但實際上的感覺是他們自己撈了好處。

It is informal, a bit sharp, and mostly British.

It is informal, a bit sharp, and mostly British這個字很口語，語氣有點尖銳，主要是英式用法。

There is a verb too, to carve something up, with the same idea. At the dinner table, carving a roast is just cutting meat; a carve-up is the cheating kind of splitting.

There is a verb too, to carve something up也有動詞用法，to carve something up， with the same idea意思是一樣的。 At the dinner table, carving a roast is just cutting meat在餐桌上，carving a roast 只是切肉， a carve-up is the cheating kind of splitting但 carve-up 是那種偷吃步式的瓜分。