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 masterpiece ['mɑ:stәpi:s]   添加此单词到默认生词本
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    masterpiece
    [ noun ]
    1. the most outstanding work of a creative artist or craftsman

    2. <noun.artifact>
    3. an outstanding achievement

    4. <noun.act>


    Masterpiece \Mas"ter*piece`\, n.
    Anything done or made with extraordinary skill; a capital
    performance; a chef-d'[oe]uvre; a supreme achievement.

    The top and masterpiece of art. --South.

    Dissimulation was his masterpiece. --Claredon.

    1. (Not all were great individually, but taken whole the septet was a mythopoeic masterpiece).
    2. His masterpiece, a rifle that was designed and built as one of a set of five for Safari Club International, brought $201,000 at auction in 1986.
    3. Proposals for the insertion of an art gallery inside the shell of that neglected masterpiece, Alexander 'Greek' Thompson's Caledonia Road Church in Glasgow, by Gillian McInnes may prompt more action to save that splendid building.
    4. It's a perfect example, an important masterpiece." The art deco district's buildings are painted pastel colors and sport geometric designs, its sidewalks are painted pink and it's often featured on NBC's "Miami Vice" television show.
    5. Englishman D.H. Lawrence's novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover," long banned as pornography, has been hailed this year as a masterpiece.
    6. A Japanese department store said today that it bought Pablo Picasso's "Acrobat and Young Harlequin" for a record $38.46 million and plans to sell the Rose Period masterpiece to a buyer in Tokyo.
    7. Then later, when accident brought the Teuton back into Thalberg's orbit, the young executive sliced Erich's five-hour 'masterpiece' Greed - to posterity's horror - to 2 1/2 hours. But Flamini offers some counter-attacking facts.
    8. IT IS always risky to set out to produce a masterpiece, especially if you are not sure what masterpiece it is going to be.
    9. IT IS always risky to set out to produce a masterpiece, especially if you are not sure what masterpiece it is going to be.
    10. Washing the item first and inserting a piece of cardboard for firmness under the spot you plan to use for your masterpiece, create wearable holiday art or greetings with Tulip paints.
    11. There has been a tendency, in recent years, for productions of this opera to make great play of the political issues raised by this many-faceted masterpiece, at the expense of the rest. We saw one side of that in the recent Royal Opera production.
    12. (They should adopt a darker, bolder make-up, and the manner to go with it). But Tricorne is a masterpiece, worthy of every effort to capture its style. It must not be neglected, nor allowed to remain in its present deep-frozen state.
    13. Mrs. Gorbachev started her sightseeing tour at St. Paul's Cathedral, Sir Christopher Wren's architectural masterpiece.
    14. For some reason, much of the first half of the special is taken up with following a blind sculptor to Italy where he gets to feel Michelangelo's masterpiece, "David."
    15. Next year, NYCB is planning to present the supreme masterpiece of 19th-century classicism, "The Sleeping Beauty."
    16. Archaeologists sifting through tons of discarded earth at a dig on the island of Crete have found more fragments of a unique gold-and-ivory figurine acclaimed as a masterpiece of Minoan sculpture.
    17. During the play, Irene (played by two actresses, Elzbieta Czyzewska and Sheryl Sutton) shows upyears before she had been the model for Rubek's masterpiece.
    18. Abbey called the work his "fat masterpiece," Macrae said.
    19. A particularly fine opportunity for full immersion in a masterpiece of the Korean past awaits anyone who can manage to visit the galleries of the Asia Society here at 725 Park Avenue before the end of July.
    20. Edvard Munch's masterpiece 'The Scream' went on public display in Oslo's National Gallery for the first time since being stolen three months ago.
    21. Elizabeth Busch's predominantly red, precisely symmetrical, startlingly modern "Last Picture Show" is a masterpiece of hand-dyed and hand-painted fabric, embellished with dramatic swaths of embroidery floss.
    22. They pile items on willy-nilly, and dare the others to touch their part of the masterpiece.
    23. In his masterpiece "El Sendaro Otro" ("The Other Path"), he showed how the small free market, operating with no legal protection, provided the vast majority of Peru's production.
    24. Nine paintings that vanished in a brazen 1985 theft, including the Monet masterpiece that gave impressionism its name, returned to Paris on Thursday after police found them in a Corsican villa.
    25. Cela's masterpiece is considered "The Hive," from 1951, which captures three days in the life of Madrid four years after the civil war.
    26. Built in the late 19th century to commemorate the Russian victory over Napoleon, the cathedral was an architectural masterpiece of gilded cupolas, imported marbles and frescoes that took 40 years and 15 million rubles to complete.
    27. A 'masterpiece of brickish aplomb', as one guidebook says.
    28. The third huge masterpiece, Courbet's 'Une Apres-dinee a Ornans' of 1848, represents the shocking arrival of realism on the scene.
    29. (Schwertsik himself was present, and unsurprisingly he turns out to be a kind of leprechaun.) Gruber's 20-minute Cello Concerto is a tour de force and a kind of masterpiece.
    30. As Mr. Shales rails, it's "neither masterpiece nor theatre" when the whole business is cooked up from scratch, just to divert a few million American TV viewers.
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