Piece

(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'.

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• 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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