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词条 Showpiece
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A showpiece is:

  • An accomplishment which is worthy of display and admiration:
  • English Wikipedia's 1,000,000th qualified article,[1] Jordanhill railway station, was called a "showpiece of parallel collaboration."[2]
  • An outstanding example of a type:
  • Beacon Hill Park in Victoria, British Columbia is considered a showpiece garden.[3]
  • The Green Mountain College organic garden with many heirloom plantings has become a campus showpiece.[4]
  • A performance or composition which provides an opportunity for the display of a particular skill:
  • The Dying Swan was ballerina Anna Pavlova's showpiece.
  • Luciano Berio's Sequenza XII is a showpiece for bassoon.
  • A work of art or theatrical production presented for exhibition:
  • In 1994, choreographer Jerome Robbins created a showpiece for the School of American Ballet based on composer Johann Sebastian Bach's Two and Three Part Inventions.[5]
  • In the satiric sense, a showpiece is a charade, a mockery, an empty or absurd pretense.

See also

  • Pièce de résistance
  • Showcase (disambiguation)

References

1. ^{{cite web |url= https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_Publishes_Millionth_Article |title= English Wikipedia Publishes Millionth Article |work= Wikimedia Foundation press release |date= 1 March 2006 |quote= }}
2. ^{{cite web |url= http://blog.phpdoc.info/archives/34-Wikipedia-English-Hits-1,000,000-articles.html |title= Wikipedia (English) Hits 1,000,000 articles |date= 1 March 2006 |quote= }}
3. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.victoriabc.com/main.php4?area=10 |title= Beacon Hill Park |work= Vancouver Island Campgrounds & Parks |quote= |deadurl= yes |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20061125025057/http://www.victoriabc.com/main.php4?area=10 |archivedate= 2006-11-25 |df= }}
4. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.greenmtn.edu/campustour/index.asp |title= Organic Garden |work= Green Mountain College Map |quote= |deadurl= yes |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20060902104859/http://www.greenmtn.edu/campustour/index.asp |archivedate= 2006-09-02 |df= }}
5. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/17/sept98/jacobs.htm |title= Jerome Robbins, 1918-1998 |author= Laura Jacobs |work= The New Criterion Vol. 17, No. 1, September 1998 |quote= }}
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