Piece
[piːs] or [pis]
解释:
(noun.) a separate part of a whole; 'an important piece of the evidence'.
(noun.) an item that is an instance of some type; 'he designed a new piece of equipment'; 'she bought a lovely piece of china';.
(noun.) a distance; 'it is down the road a piece'.
(noun.) an artistic or literary composition; 'he wrote an interesting piece on Iran'; 'the children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests'.
(noun.) an instance of some kind; 'it was a nice piece of work'; 'he had a bit of good luck'.
(noun.) a serving that has been cut from a larger portion; 'a piece of pie'; 'a slice of bread'.
(verb.) repair by adding pieces; 'She pieced the china cup'.
(verb.) join during spinning; 'piece the broken pieces of thread, slivers, and rovings'.
手打:凯勒--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces.
(n.) A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper.
(n.) Any one thing conceived of as apart from other things of the same kind; an individual article; a distinct single effort of a series; a definite performance
(n.) A literary or artistic composition; as, a piece of poetry, music, or statuary.
(n.) A musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece.
(n.) A coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied specifically to an English gold coin worth 22 shillings.
(n.) A fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge.
(n.) An individual; -- applied to a person as being of a certain nature or quality; often, but not always, used slightingly or in contempt.
(n.) One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn.
(n.) A castle; a fortified building.
(v. t.) To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out.
(v. t.) To unite; to join; to combine.
(v. i.) To unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to join.
丹尼斯校对
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Part, portion, section, fragment, bit, scrap.[2]. Composition, writing, lucubration, literary production.[3]. Gun, cannon, fire-arm.
巴尔托迪编辑
解释:
n. a part of anything: a single article: a definite quantity as of cloth or paper: an amount of work to be done at one time: a separate performance: a literary or artistic composition: a gun: a coin: a man in chess or draughts: a person generally a woman in contempt.—v.t. to enlarge by adding a piece: to patch.—v.i. to unite by a joining of parts: to join.—n.pl. Piece′-goods cotton linen woollen or silk fabrics sold retail in varying lengths.—adj. Piece′less not made of pieces: entire.—adv. Piece′meal in pieces or fragments: by pieces: little by little: bit by bit: gradually.—adj. made of pieces: single: separate.—ns. Piec′ener a piecer; Piec′ening or Piec′ing the act of mending esp. the joining of the ends of yarn thread &c. so as to repair breaks; Piec′er a boy or girl employed in a spinning-factory to join broken threads; Piece′work work done by the piece or quantity rather than by time.—Pié‘“e de ré–Ÿistance principal piece: chief event or performance: chief dish at a dinner; Piece of eight the Spanish peso duro ('hard dollar') bearing the numeral 8 of the value of 8 reals (prob. the sign $ is derived from this); Piece out to put together bit by bit; Piece up to patch up.—Give a piece of one's mind to give a rating frankly to any one's face; Of a piece as if of the same piece the same in nature &c.
整理:康拉德
例句:
- A piece of tapestry over a door also showed a blue-green world with a pale stag in it. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- What I mean is, Lizzie, that I am a mere impertinent piece of conceit, and you shame me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I asked George Lamb if he had heard Mr. Livius's new piece. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Move the lens so that its distance from the candle is increased, and then find the image on a piece of paper. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- To obtain a true photograph, the negative is placed on a piece of sensitive photographic paper, or paper coated with a silver salt in the same manner as the plate and films. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- When I left, Estella was yet standing by the great chimney-piece, just as she had stood throughout. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- I cut the cheese into pieces and laid them on the macaroni. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- Such an arrangement of wire is known as a helix or solenoid, and is capable of lifting or pulling larger and more numerous filings and even good-sized pieces of iron, such as tacks. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- It was spacious, and I dare say had once been handsome, but every discernible thing in it was covered with dust and mould, and dropping to pieces. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- The coinage of the United States mints since the organization of the government has amounted to nearly 6,000,000,000 pieces, valued at over $4,000,000,000. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Why should the brain be enclosed in a box composed of such numerous and such extraordinarily shaped pieces of bone apparently representing vertebrae? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- He made experiments, and at last succeeded in rendering the copper negatively electrical by the use of small pieces of tin, zinc, or iron nails. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- The two pointed pieces of hard conducting carbon used for the separated terminals constitute the voltaic arc light--a light only excelled in intense brilliancy by the sun itself. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- All the letters had been pieced together with strips of thin paper. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- The schoolmaster went his way, brooding and brooding, and a sense of being vanquished in a struggle might have been pieced out of his worried face. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Bit by bit other fragments of this skull were hunted out from the quarry heaps until most of it could be pieced together. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- With nearer approach these fragmentary sounds became pieced together, and were found to be the salient points of the tune called Nancy's Fancy. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
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