conversation piece 的定义
- any object that arouses comment because of some striking or unusual quality.
- group portraiture representing more or less fashionable people either in an interior or landscape setting.
- a play that relies for its effect mainly on the cleverness of its dialogue rather than on plot or action.
conversation piece 近义词
等同于 novelty
等同于 item
等同于 knickknack
等同于 oddity
等同于 gewgaw
等同于 curiosity
更多conversation piece例句
- Think about what can be a conversation piece or what will make you smile when you return home.
- The well, ghost or no ghost, is certainly a piece of history with a bold presence.
- For many years afterward it was a never-ending topic of conversation, and is more or less talked of even to this day.
- My doctor insisted that once I filed this piece I lie down on my bed and not get out.
- Last March they gave Airbus a huge piece of new business, ordering 169 A320s and 65 of the slightly larger A321.
- Yet, for god knows what reason, his name is never brought up in the “Great American Filmmaker” conversation.
- I assure you, no matter how beautifully we play any piece, the minute Liszt plays it, you would scarcely recognize it!
- I was busy loading the piece when an exclamation of surprise from one of the men made me look up.
- A desultory conversation on politics, in which neither took the slightest interest, was a safe neutral ground.
- Cousin George's position is such a happy one, that conversation is to him a thing superfluous.
- There were two battalions, together about a thousand men; and they brought a field-piece with them.