velvet divorce
基本解釋
- 天鵝絨分離；和平分裂
英漢例句
- If not for him, the peaceful Velvet Divorce between the Czech lands and Slovakia in 1991/2 could have become as bloody as was the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.
如果沒有哈維爾，1991/2年捷克與斯洛伐克的和平分離可能會像前南斯拉夫獨立一樣造成流血沖突。 - He could have done more, he thinks, to stop the velvet divorce from Slovakia in 1993, something that many Czechs have come to lament and which has indeed diminished both halves of the former country.
ECONOMIST: The Czech Republic - Highlights include the crushed velvet wedding dress Hepburn wore when she married Ludlow Ogden Smith in 1928 (she got a Mexican divorce from him six years later and never remarried).
FORBES: Kate's Estate