释义 |
set pieceˌset ˈpiece noun [countable] - The State of the Union address is one of the great set pieces of American public life.
- Eleven minutes later Andrew McBride saw his set piece effort deflected past the post by a defender's stick.
- The Laurel and Hardy set piece was the ordinary situation from which sprang a coiling spiral of disaster.
- We might think, in retrospect, that it was a set piece of rather obvious connivance.
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