piece of work

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A product or manufactured article, especially an item of art or craft.
    — What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty!
  2. A person who has a strong and unusual personality, especially one with seriously unpleasant character flaws. derogatory,idiomatic,often
    — Ugh! She's a piece of work. "A rotten, bad piece, I'd call it," answered Wheedles under his breath.

词形变化

pieces of work plural

词汇关系

近义词
labor
相关词
workpiece

词源

First use appears c. 1473. The idiomatic second sense came about due to Hamlet’s monologue. See cite from sense 1 below.
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