Unlike a white marble, one could carve nothing on it. Nor did it resemble a big bluish stone, on which one could wash clothes.

它不像汉白玉那样的细腻，可以凿下刻字雕花，也不像大青石那样的光滑，可以供来浣纱捶布；它静静地卧在那里，院边的槐荫没有庇覆它，花儿也不再在它身边生长。

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One way to find a great niche is to carve out a small corner of a popular topic.

其中一个好的方法是，从一个热门话题里开拓出一个小角落来讨论。

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If one firm cut its prices, destroying the unspoken deal to carve up the market, it would succeed only in starting a price war.

即使一家投资银行通过降价来掠夺市场，打破了之前默认的协议，那么它也只可能在随之引发的价格战中获胜。

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Manufacturers can only watch as their dealers carve one another up by advertising giveaway prices.

FORBES: Dealer Surplus

What the bank needs, in a crowded market, is a niche of its own, and it is trying to carve one out.

ECONOMIST: The World Bank and global health

If you could carve one second into a thousand slices, that would be a millisecond and about how quickly you could trade dead Wilbur.

WSJ: An Economy Caught in a Web