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piece
Word family
ldoce_258_jpiece1 /piːs/ ●●● S1 W1 noun [countableC] → peace
1 
amount 量PIECE an amount of something that has been separated from the main part 片；块；段；截
amount 量PIECE an amount of something that has been separated from the main part 片；块；段；截piece of
2 part 部分 one of the parts that something divides or breaks into 碎片，碎块；断片，切片
piece of
► see thesaurus at part3 single item 单个物品 a single thing of a particular type, or something that is one of several similar things 一个；一片；一块；一件；一张
piece of
4 small amount 少量 [usually singular] a small amount of something that is interesting, useful, or unusual in some way 一点
5 land 土地AREA an area of land 〔土地〕一片
6 fall to pieces BREAK
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fall to pieces• I suppose it's just about falling to pieces.• He hated playing agony aunt but he couldn't afford to have Hirschfeldt falling to pieces.• After he left, I fell to pieces.• The Soviet Union is falling to pieces; a bloody struggle for those pieces can not be ruled out.• As a result, now that the autumn rains were here, it was already showing signs of falling to pieces.• The house was filthy, she realized, practically falling to pieces.• If reforms are not carried out soon, the economy will simply fall to pieces.• The media seemed to be willing the marriage to fall to pieces.• Supposing the union fell to pieces, these were the fracture lines along which it would naturally break.• The vase fell to pieces as soon as it hit the floor.• Stacy would fall to pieces if she knew Gary was cheating on her.
7 go to pieces NERVOUSif a person or what they do goes to pieces, they are so upset or nervous that they cannot live, work, or perform as they should 〔因伤心、紧张不安而〕崩溃，垮掉
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go to pieces• I almost went to pieces in that room.• The ship broke in half, tumbled over the precipice, and went to pieces.• Keeping busy was the only thing that kept her from going to pieces during the divorce.• It seems he goes to pieces in a crisis, then.• With their old taboos discredited, they immediately go to pieces, disintegrate, and become re-sorts of vice and disease.• I was so nervous in my driving test I just went to pieces.• When they lost the family business, Liz went to pieces.• That's perhaps why things began to go to pieces when the boy was born.• He was going to pieces inside, just as Lorton intended, and he didn't like it.
8 smash/rip/tear something to pieces DAMAGEto damage something badly by breaking it into many parts 把某物摔成/撕成碎片
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smash/rip/tear something to pieces• I had been given the power to obliterate, to steal a body from its grave and tear it to pieces.• And having got under them, he can't half tear them to pieces.• He was thrown from his chariot and his horses tore him to pieces and devoured him.• Telling me the strangest things sometimes, evil things - till I want to shout out or smash them to pieces.• We are lost, for they will surely tear us to pieces with their sharp claws.• If Hyde returns while I am writing this confession, he will tear it to pieces to annoy me.• Brandon Thomas opted to unveil his Aunt away from London fearful that the capital's theatre critics would tear it to pieces.
9 pull/rip/tear somebody/something to pieces CRITICIZEto criticize someone or their ideas very severely 严厉批评某人[某人的观点]
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pull/rip/tear somebody/something to pieces• I had been given the power to obliterate, to steal a body from its grave and tear it to pieces.• And having got under them, he can't half tear them to pieces.• He was thrown from his chariot and his horses tore him to pieces and devoured him.• We are lost, for they will surely tear us to pieces with their sharp claws.• If Hyde returns while I am writing this confession, he will tear it to pieces to annoy me.• They will tear you to pieces.• Brandon Thomas opted to unveil his Aunt away from London fearful that the capital's theatre critics would tear it to pieces.
10 art/music etc 艺术/音乐等A something that has been produced by an artist, musician, or writer 〔艺术家、音乐家或作家的〕作品
11 news item 新闻TCN a short article in a newspaper or magazine or part of a television or radio programme that is about a particular subject 〔报纸、杂志的〕文章，短文；〔电视、电台的〕报道
12 in one piece INJURE informal if you arrive somewhere in one piece, you are not injured 安然无恙的
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in one piece• The china arrived all in one piece, thank God.• I was extremely relieved when my son came back from the warzone all in one piece.• All she wanted was for me to come back in one piece.• It would explain how Greg manages to be in one piece while the Lorelei is nothing but a few planks of driftwood.• I don't know how we got the piano down in one piece!• At one point, maybe, it was when they arrived home in one piece from school.• Lowering the tender took care and patience if they wanted to keep it in one piece.• All you wanted to do was get out of it in one piece, go home, and get a job.• The fatty skin covering should easily lift off in one piece.• It should fall out in one piece.• When they get there the china cabinet is still in one piece but the budgie is dead.• Unlike Ed, Josh returned from the war in one piece.
13 give somebody a piece of your mind informalANGRY to tell someone that you are very angry with them 告诉某人你很生他的气
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give somebody a piece of your mind• I was so mad that I called back and gave her a piece of my mind.• She'd give Gloria a piece of her mind when she got home!• I begin to pronounce the sequence of words and numbers that will prevent her from giving him a piece of her mind.• If one of the kids is being sassy, Inez gives them a piece of her mind.• Boy, am I going to give him a piece of my mind when I see him.• But it was worth it, to give Hilda Machin a piece of her mind.• She managed to manoeuvre into the remaining space and got out to give somebody a piece of her mind.• Ready to give somebody a piece of her mind, Aunt Pat strode to the front door and flung it open.
14 be a piece of cake informalEASY to be very easy to do 很容易做，是轻而易举的事
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be a piece of cake• The one he was allocated, Parky, a homely, Hoomey-sized bay, was a piece of cake compared with Bones.• Should be a piece of cake.• Normally, walking along tarmac is a piece of cake after the rocky excursion along a ridge.• That was a piece of cake compared to finding a square mile without an ad.• My bone marrow was harvested a couple of weeks ago and the whole thing was a piece of cake.• Glacier walking is a piece of cake; well this bit was, with rolling hills of dazzling serenity.• But there is no use pretending the Saturn-Pluto effect will be a piece of cake.
16 a piece of the action informalPROFIT a share of the money from a business activity 〔商业活动中获得的〕一份收益
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a piece of the action• After five years in middle management, I'm ready for a real piece of the action.• A police station, so help me, is a piece of the action.• But the General wanted a piece of the action.• But the real race is to adapt the superbike for road use before rivals grab a piece of the action.• His successors never again ran the town, as he did, but they always had a piece of the action.• It's not only the players who want a piece of the action.• Nation shall speak peace unto nation, and I shall grab a piece of the action.• Or did evil Uncle Humbert destroy it, because under the law he would then get a piece of the action?• Will foreign firms get a piece of the action?
17 be (all) of a piece
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be (all) of a piece• My body was all of a piece, it did not have any seams.• It was all of a piece with them.• It was of a piece with the neglected timber, the weedy gravel and the minatory notices which guarded the bounds.• Murray's sensitive readings of Marvell's poetry argue that the life is of a piece with the work.• But it really is all of a piece in the end.• Lehane does, but then that is of a piece with the rest of this marvellous book.
18 money 钱
22. be a (real) piece of work spoken informal especially American EnglishAmE to be someone who does nasty things or deceives people in order to get what they want （真）是个讨厌的家伙［骗子］
23. be a piece of shit/crap spoken not politeBAD used to show that you do not respect someone or something they say 是废话/是个废物〔用于表示不尊敬他人所说的人或事物〕
24. piece of ass American EnglishAmE informal not politeSEX/HAVE SEX WITH an offensive expression for a woman. Do not use this expression. 女人，雌儿
→ how long is a piece of string? at long1(9) THESAURUS
piece an amount of something that has been cut or separated from the main part 片；块；段；截
Could I have another piece of cake?
我可以再吃一块蛋糕吗？
a piece of broken glass
一块碎玻璃
nEmma cut the pie into eight pieces.
bit a piece. Bit is more informal than piece and is often used about smaller pieces 小片；小块〔与piece相比,bit 更为不正式〕
The notes were written on bits of paper.
笔记都写在小纸片上。
He threw a bit of wood onto the fire.
他把一小截木头丢进火里。
lump a small piece of something solid or firm that does not have a regular shape 块〔指形状不规则的固体〕
two lumps of sugar
两块糖
a lump of coal
一块煤
a lump of clay
一块黏土
scrap a small piece of paper, cloth etc that is no longer needed 〔废弃的〕小片；小块
I wrote the phone number on a scrap of paper.
我将电话号码写在一张废纸片上。
The dog was eating scraps of food off the floor.
狗在吃地上的食物碎屑。
strip a long narrow piece of cloth, paper etc 〔布或纸等的〕条,带
a strip of cloth
一截布条
The leather had been cut into strips.
那张皮被切成一条条的。
sheet a thin flat piece of something such as paper, glass, or metal 〔纸、玻璃、金属的〕薄片，薄板
a blank sheet of paper
一张空白纸
a sheet of aluminium
一块铝片
slice a thin flat piece of bread, cake, meat etc cut from a larger piece 〔切下的〕薄片
a slice of pizza
一片比萨饼
Cut the tomatoes into thin slices.
将西红柿切成薄片。
chunk a piece of something solid that does not have a regular shape – used especially about food, rock, or metal 厚块,大块,厚片〔指形状不规则的固体,尤指食物、石头或金属〕
The fruit was cut into large chunks.
这水果被切成大块。
a chunk of bread
一大块面包
hunk a large piece with rough edges, which has been cut or has broken off a bigger piece of food, rock etc 大块，大片〔指切下或掰下的食物、石头等〕
a big hunk of cheese
一大块干酪
hunks of concrete
水泥块
block a piece of something solid, which has straight sides 〔平整的〕大块
concrete blocks
大块水泥
a block of cheese
一大块干酪
a block of ice
一大块冰
slab a thick flat piece of stone, or of cake, meat etc 〔石头、蛋糕、肉等的〕厚块,厚板
The floor had been made from stone slabs.
地面用石板铺成。
a slab of beef
厚厚一块牛肉
cube a piece that has six square sides – used especially about food 〔立方体的〕一块〔尤指食物〕
a cube of sugar
一块方糖
ice cubes
冰块
nwedge a piece that has a thick end and a pointed end, and is shaped like a triangle – used especially about food and metal
a small piece 小片,小块a wedge of cheese
fragment a small piece that has broken off something, especially something hard 碎片〔尤指坚硬物体〕
The window shattered, covering them with fragments of glass.
窗户碎了,玻璃碴子落了他们一身。
They found fragments of bone.
他们找到了碎骨。
crumb a very small piece of bread, cake etc 〔面包、蛋糕等的〕碎屑
There were just a few crumbs left on the plate.
盘里只剩了一些碎屑。
speck a piece of something such as dirt or dust which is so small you almost cannot see it 〔灰尘等的〕微粒,小点
She brushed the specks of dust from the table.
她掸去桌上的灰尘。
drop a very small amount of a liquid 〔液体的〕滴
COLLOCATIONS CHECK 常用搭配There were drops of blood on the floor.
地上有血滴。
I felt a drop of rain.
我感觉到有雨滴落下。
lump of sugar/rock/metal/earth
scrap of paper
strip of cloth/paper
sheet of paper/metal/glass
slice of bread/pizza/cake/meat
chunk of fruit/bread
block of ice/stone/wood
slab of rock/stone/meat
bar of soap/chocolate/candy/metal
rasher of bacon
speck of dirt/dust
drop of blood/rain/liquid
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piece• Our satellite dish has a piece broken off of it.• Crude as Farley plays it, his endearing-blowfish persona is quite a piece of work.• If you want a piece, indicate by saying yes.• When a piece of quicklime was held in the tip of the flame it became white hot and glowed brilliantly.• a piece of paper• Harry wanted to take the little blonde piece and jive with her.• a pack of chicken pieces• Tim cut the pie into eight pieces.• a simple boat made from a few pieces of wood• And indeed it was something very different - the bones of a human skeleton, a few pieces of clothing still on it.• a truly impressive piece of Greek sculpture• The vase lay in pieces on the floor.• The equipment had to be taken apart and transported in pieces.• The collection includes pieces in both oils and watercolours, with a range of still life paintings.• Some of the jigsaw pieces are missing.• Taking a page from the Netscape playbook, Microsoft is giving away key pieces of Internet software.• But finally Helen had crumpled her last piece of newspaper.• a beautifully made piece of furniture• The Times did a nice piece on the illegal gambling.• The concert began with three short pieces by the Brazilian composer Villa-Lobos.• One of the pieces in Greene's sculpture collection is valued at $12,000.• The position of the piece of gravel would have made it virtually impossible for the fish to dislodge it.• The books were eagerly borrowed and well used, and they finally fell to pieces.• The old wreck had been smashed to pieces on the island's rocks.• Another typical piece of Owen's work is the poem, 'The Sentry'.• There were pieces of broken glass all over the road.
piece of• Do you want a piece of pizza?• There are pieces of glass all over the road.
in pieces• But now assume another person invests that same $ 20,000 in pieces on a monthly basis.• It is in commerce and in pieces of every size.• But it was a home thrust, for the Dennison family was breaking in pieces.• The car must have been dismantled and brought up in the elevator in pieces, then put together again.• He got Hamlet in pieces, over breakfast.• The ship now lies in pieces at the bottom of the ocean.• On his downswing, all the moving parts came together at once, not in pieces.• The cars were shipped in pieces and then reassembled.• There was an accident and the thing ended up in pieces.• He was in pieces, wasn't he?
piece of advice/information/gossip etc• My reverie was penetrated by two devastating pieces of information which managed to scale the language barrier.• Consider each piece of information in turn.• His first piece of advice was that I tell no one.• Explain clearly why you have included pieces of information.• I thought that was an interesting piece of information, so I put it in my story.• How much better it is when any facts or pieces of information come from you yourself.• What are the connections between the pieces of information?• Why is this piece of information necessary?
piece of music/writing/sculpture etc• And if I fall into the pulse at the start of a piece of music it is a physical joy.• It won't be deathless prose, but it should be a grammatical and effective piece of writing.• That is one of my favorite pieces of music.• They spent hours together, particularly when one or the other had acquired a new piece of music.• Produce a sustained piece of writing when the task demands it. ii Produce well-structured pieces of writing.• If anything this piece of writing is too competent, too clever.• If you mixed all your pieces of writing together, would they make a story?
piece about/on• He began to read a piece about the proposed transformation of a disused mill into a luxury hotel.• You said you were going to write a piece on opinion polls and then you wrote a story slandering the Prime Minister.• Not a single one had listened to it or even heard bits and pieces on the news.• Or Seafood Salad - a delicious combination of prawns, smoked salmon and crab pieces on a bed of mixed salad.• Burnished visuals are a plus in this memory piece about a boy growing up in Depression-era South Philadelphia.• In any case, orienting the piece on the table also takes time.• You also could put the pieces on skewers and push them in the ground near the trees.• I mean, it's not like they were compiled to pieces on Rough Trade or anything, is it?
ten pence/50-cent etc piece• I've just swallowed fifteen ten pence pieces!
piece2 ●○○ verb
1 piece something ↔ together phrasal verbphr v
a) UNDERSTANDto use all the information you have about a situation in order to discover the truth about it 把〔所有事实或信息〕拼凑起来
b) COMPLETEto put all the separate parts of an object into the correct order or position 把 〔物体的部分〕拼合起来
Examples from the Corpus
piece together• But little by little he would piece it all together.• Mariscotti was intrigued and as there are no government archives he had to piece the story together.• Urich has always been a likable actor, and he is sympathetic as a man trying to piece his life together.• We have the responsibility to put a piece of art together.• By their third lesson he could strip the barrel and put the pieces back together again faster than the instructor.• When you add vinegar to milk, the small solid pieces clump together and form larger solid pieces.• You just have to wait and catch your moment or piece things together as best you can.• Once play resumed, Steeg had the task of putting the pieces back together in a short time.
Examples from the Corpus
piece• He will not piece or parse.• Twenty-five years after Fernando's death, it was possible to piece together his skeleton in its entirety.• Organisations such as Gamblers Anonymous concern themselves with piecing together the casualties of addiction.• Accident investigators have been at the scene this morning trying to piece together what happened.• He finished up trying to piece together what happened.• It took days, but finally they thought they had it pretty well pieced together.
From Longman Business Dictionary
piecepiece /piːs/ noun [countableC]
1ten-pence/fifty-cent etc piece a coin of a particular value
Does anyone have change for a 50 pence piece?
2a single thing of a particular type
piece of
a piece of equipment
a 24-piece cutlery set
3supply/sell something by the pieceCOMMERCE to supply or sell something as a single thing rather than in a pair or a set
4pay somebody/work by the pieceCOMMERCE if people work or are paid by the piece, they are paid for each thing they produce, not for the amount of time it takes to produce it
(1100-1200) Old French Vulgar Latin pettia
piece1 noun
→THESAURUS1piece2 verb
→10-24
→THESAURUS1piece2 verb
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