pièce de résistance

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A masterpiece; the most memorable accomplishment of one’s career or lifetime.
    — The pièce de résistance was the workbench, easily a hundred years old.
  2. The chief dish at a dinner.
    — Our pièce de résistance was a traditional preparation of poularde de Bresse en vessie: an entire chicken, stuffed with truffles and foie, steamed inside an inflated pig’s bladder in a bath of liquor and still more truffles.

词形变化

pièces de résistance plural piece de resistance alternative,common

词源

Borrowed from French pièce de résistance; the first use of this phrase in English appears in 1789 in Richard Cumberland's novel Arundel.
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