set piece
英式
- a passage or section of a novel, play, film, or piece of music that is arranged in an elaborate or conventional pattern for maximum effect；a formal and carefully structured speech
noun: set piece, plural noun: set pieces
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- 釋義
名詞
- 1. a passage or section of a novel, play, film, or piece of music that is arranged in an elaborate or conventional pattern for maximum effect the film lurches from one comic set piece to another
- ▪ a formal and carefully structured speech his first set-piece speech of the campaign
- 2. British a carefully organized and practised move in a team game by which the ball is returned to play, as at a scrum or a free kick in the 89th minute another set piece produced the third goal a hat-trick of exciting tries from set-piece moves
