请输入您要查询的英文单词：

　

单词 piece together
释义

piece together

1. phrasal verb
If you piece together the truth about something, you gradually discover it.
They've pieced together his movements for the last few days before his death. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
In the following days, Francis was able to piece together what had happened. [VERB PARTICLE wh]
Frank was beginning to piece things together. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
2. phrasal verb
If you piece something together, you gradually make it by joining several things or parts together.
This process is akin to piecing together a jigsaw puzzle. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
Doctors painstakingly pieced together the broken bones. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)]
[Also VERB noun PARTICLE]
See full dictionary entry for piece

piece together in American English

to join the pieces of, as in mending
See full dictionary entry for piece

Examples of 'piece together' in a sentence
piece together

Before he died we were planning to write a piece together about whether Italians were more interested in food or cars.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Before he died we were planning to write a piece together about whether Italians weremore interested in food or cars.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Now researchers have pieced together the crumpled jigsaw of our lousy litter habits.
The Sun (2010)
No one put the jigsaw pieces together.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Stick the two pieces together to make the belt base.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Personal style is something you piece together from all sorts of sources and build up as you get older.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It took a little more than 24 hours for the jigsaw to be pieced together.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The film is structured as a kind of mosaic of moments which gradually piece together into a one-sided love affair.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Apart from uncovering potential plots and identifying operatives, investigators say they are piecing together information about the money trail.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
And we forget that the part we can see is not just "there "but is very much something built, something constructed or pieced together over time.
Kantrow, Alan M. The Constraints of Corporate Tradition (1987)

Chinese translation of 'piece together'

piece together

vt

  1. [information, truth] 搜(蒐)集 (sōují)
  2. [object] 拼合 (pīnhé)
See piece

Nearby words of
piece together

  • piece of cloth
  • piece of journalism
  • piece of luggage
  • piece together
  • pier
  • pierce
  • pierced
随便看

　

英语词典包含298861条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。

　

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间：2025/1/7 4:20:55