velvet divorce
基本解释
- 天鹅绒分离；和平分裂
英汉例句
- 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.
如果没有哈维尔，1991/2年捷克与斯洛伐克的和平分离可能会像前南斯拉夫独立一样造成流血冲突。 - 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