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
Police are trying to piece together his movements before the murder.
警方试图梳理出他在凶案发生前的行踪。
Her early life has been pieced together from several different sources.
根据几个不同的资料来源整理出来了她的早期生活状况。
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
He slowly pieced together the torn fragments of a letter.
他把撕碎的信慢慢拼起来。
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 likableactor, 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 thirdlesson he could strip the barrel and put the pieces back together again faster than the instructor.• When you addvinegar to milk, the small solidpieces 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.