cleaving

基本解释

Our ship is cleaving her way through the strait.
我们的船正乘风破浪通过海峡。
The luxurious liner is cleaving through the waves.
这艘豪华的邮轮正在破浪前进。
Mr Grant said Britain, France and Germany are all wary of giving ground, cleaving closely to US policy.
格兰特先生表示，英国、法国、德国与美国的政策有了分歧，都在做谨慎的让步。

It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.
这是从那个被咬的苹果皮外来的，善恶的知识，像一对双胞胎分开但又在一起，一起在人间前进。
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One of them considers America the culmination of the Enlightenment, cleaving to a rational philosophy that would indeed exclude religion and its icons from the public square.
ECONOMIST: Lexington
This almost instinctive cleaving to the American line on Iraq is particularly striking coming from a British government which has made a point of emphasising its desire to build closer relations with Europe.
ECONOMIST: Mr Blair goes to Washington
Soitec uses a method known as hydrogen-cleaving technology.
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To cleave something means to split or divide it into two separate parts, often violently.
If someone cleaves to something or to someone else, they begin or continue to have strong feelings of loyalty towards them.