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单词 set piece
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
set piece′, 
    1. Show Businessan arrangement of slow-burning fireworks forming a design or composition when lighted.
    2. Show Business[Theat.]a piece of scenery used as part of a stage set, as a profile or three-dimensional construction built to stand independently on the stage floor:A few set pieces simulating rocks and a fence constituted the scenery for the first act.
    3. Fine Art, Literaturea work of art, literature, music, etc., having a prescribed thematic and formal structure:the set pieces of Restoration comedy.
    4. Fine Art, Literaturea scene, action, or the like, having a conventional form and functioning as part of the structure of a work of art, literature, etc.
    5. Militarya military operation carried out according to a rigid plan.
    6. Literature(in a novel, narrative poem, or the like) a passage more or less extraneous to the sequence of events, introduced to supply background, color, or the like.
    • 1840–50

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
set piece n
  1. a work of literature, music, etc, often having a conventional or prescribed theme, intended to create an impressive effect
  2. a display of fireworks
  3. a rehearsed team manoeuvre, usually attempted in continuous games at a restart of play, esp when the other side has been penalized for improper play
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