| 单词 | set piece |
| 释义 | set piece 1. an arrangement of slow-burning fireworks forming a design or composition when lighted. 2. 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. a work of art, literature, music, etc., having a prescribed thematic and formal structure: the set pieces of Restoration comedy. 4. a scene, action, or the like, having a conventional form and functioning as part of the structure of a work of art, literature, etc. 5. a military operation carried out according to a rigid plan. 6. (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] |
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