pieces
A piece of something is an amount of it that has been broken off, torn off, or cut off.
a piece of cake.
一块蛋糕。
Cut the ham into pieces.
把火腿切成片。
A piece of an object is one of the individual parts or sections that it is made of, especially a part that can be removed.
assembling objects out of standard pieces.
用标准部件组装物品。
A piece of land is an area of land.
People struggle to get the best piece of land.
人们竞相争夺最好的一块土地。
You can use piece of with many uncount nouns to refer to an individual thing of a particular kind. For example, you can refer to some advice as a piece of advice.
When I produced this piece of work, my lecturers were very critical.
当我创作这件作品的时候,我的老师们提出了很多批评意见。
an interesting piece of information.
一条有趣的信息。
You can refer to an article in a newspaper or magazine, some music written by someone, a broadcast, or a play as a piece.
She wrote a piece on Gwyneth Paltrow for the New Yorker.
她为《纽约客》写了一篇关于格温妮丝·帕尔特罗的文章。
a vaguely familiar orchestral piece.
一首隐约有些熟悉的管弦乐曲。
You can refer to a work of art as a piece.
Each piece is unique, an exquisite painting of a real person, done on ivory.
每件艺术品都很独特,均为绘在象牙上的真人精致画像。
You can refer to specific coins as pieces. For example, a 5 cent piece is a coin that is worth 5 cents.
lots of 10 cent, 20 cent, and 50 cent pieces.
很多10分、20分和50分的硬币。
The pieces that you use when you play a board game such as chess are the specially made objects that you move around on the board.
How many pieces does each player have in backgammon?
西洋双陆棋里每方各有多少枚棋子?
pieces , piecing , pieced
piece together
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.
他们已经渐渐查明了他死前最后几天的行踪。
In the following days, Frankie was able to piece together what had happened.
在接下来的几天里,弗朗姬能够渐渐弄清所发生的事情了。
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.
这一过程类似于拼七巧板。
give someone a piece of your mind
If you give someone a piece of your mind, you tell them very clearly that you think they have behaved badly.
How very thoughtless. I'll give him a piece of my mind.
太欠考虑了。我要狠狠地批评他。
in one piece
If someone or something is still in one piece after a dangerous journey or experience, they are safe and not damaged or hurt.
providing that my brother gets back alive and in one piece from his mission.
假若我哥哥完成任务后安然无恙地活着回来的话。
to pieces
You use to pieces in expressions such as 'smash to pieces', or 'take something to pieces', when you are describing how something is broken or comes apart so that it is in separate pieces.
go to pieces
If you go to pieces, you are so upset or nervous that you lose control of yourself and cannot do what you should do.
She's a strong woman, but she nearly went to pieces when Arnie died.
她是个坚强的女人,但阿尼死的时候她几乎崩溃了。