cleaving

基本解释

Our ship is cleaving her way through the strait.
我們的船正乘風破浪通過海峽。
The luxurious liner is cleaving through the waves.
這艘豪華的郵輪正在破浪前進。
Mr Grant said Britain, France and Germany are all wary of giving ground, cleaving closely to US policy.
格蘭特先生表示，英國、法國、德國與美國的政策有了分歧，都在做謹慎的讓步。

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.
這是從那個被咬的蘋果皮外來的，善惡的知識，像一對雙胞胎分開但又在一起，一起在人間前進。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節選

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.