| 词汇 | piecemeal |
| 释义 | piecemeal adverb, adjective often disapprovinguk /ˈpiːs.miːl/ us /ˈpiːs.miːl/ not done according to a plan but done at different times in different ways: 一步一步的（地）;逐渐的（地）;逐个的（地）;零散的（地） Unfortunately, everything is being done piecemeal.遗憾的是，所有的一切都零零星星地进行。 Not expected or planned abrupt end abrupt halt abruptly abruptness ad hoc inadvertence inadvertency inadvertent inadvertently inconceivable sine die spirit spontaneity spontaneous spontaneously unsuspected untimely untoward unwilled unwitting piecemeal | American Dictionarypiecemeal adjective, adverb[ not gradable ] us/ˈpisˌmil/ not done according to a plan but done at different times in different ways: Do we fix it all now, or do we approach it piecemeal over time? Examples of piecemealpiecemeal Functionalist analyses of representations as making irreducible differences to behavior are piecemeal vindications of the scientific significance of oldfashioned agent causation. However, subsequent e^orts to privatize these 314 public-sector enterprises proceeded slowly and in piecemeal fashion. Virtually all countries have experimented with land reform in different guises, from the piecemeal to the revolutionary, with varying degrees of success. And it is not just the policy fragments which have emerged piecemeal and reactive, it is the institutions which they have breathlessly created. The individual client communicates his piecemeal evaluative judgments to the welfare economist, who will summarize them into an ordering. It just means that answers will come slowly and in a very piecemeal way. Yet such a piecemeal approach is simplistic in relation to actual landscapes, -where many of these questions have to be borne in mind simultaneously. Moral progress is possible, but advance will always be piecemeal and constrained by the moral pilgrim's prior (unavoidably flawed) quality of discernment. Indeed, why take the trouble to acquire information piecemeal when it can be had wholesale? Unlike policy in some other fields, officials tend to modify welfare policies in piecemeal fashion. This piecemeal approach has produced several gaps in understanding. Also, they are more likely, perhaps, to possess a coherence lacking in the piecemeal application of individual studies. In a pluralistic society we cannot always rely on the possibility of a piecemeal consensus. Observers were told not to press any button if they experienced piecemeal or ambiguous percepts. However, this reanalysis 'comes in piecemeal with each wh-word ' (p. 171). These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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