tour de force

英 [ˌtʊə də ˈfɔːs]

美 [ˌtʊr də ˈfɔːrs]

n.  绝技; 特技; 杰作

牛津词典

noun

• 绝技；特技；杰作
  an extremely skilful performance or achievement
  1. a cinematic tour de force
     电影杰作

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 精彩演出;精心杰作；绝活
  If you call something such as a performance, speech, or production atour de force, you are emphasizing that it is extremely good or extremely well done or made.
  1. Stevenson's deeply felt performance is a tour-de-force...
     史蒂文森感人肺腑的表演真是绝了。
  2. His tour de force is an elephant sculpture.
     他的精心之作是一件大象雕塑。

英英释义

noun

• a masterly or brilliant feat

双语例句

• The paper reviews the major features and inadequacies of the monograph and regards the work as a tour de force that makes good omissions and deficiencies and brings forth new ideas.
  文章对该书的主要特色和不足之处作了评述，认为这是一部拾遗补缺、开拓创新的精品力作。
• "This was a technical tour de force, and potentially represents a new way of looking at disease states," said Kingsmore.
  “这是一种技术之旅，而且有可能代表了一种新的看待疾病的方法，”金斯莫尔说。
• I thought her Lady Macbeth was a tour de force.
  我认为她演的麦克白夫人堪称一绝。
• Surgeons don't want to invest themselves in a relationship and a technical tour de force, then have to walk away.
  外科医生不希望自己陷入医患关系和技术技巧中，于是他们选择离开。
• In this book Uncle Bob brings together the two and gives a developer a tour de force of object-oriented design principles and an insight on how to use them on an Agile project.
  在这本书中，UncleBob给我们介绍了这两个概念，并且带我们了解面向对象设计原则，以及如何在敏捷项目中使用它们。
• But the S-class is unquestionably a tour de force, a showy, almost arrogant display of auto-making genius ( assuming it all holds together).
  不过，毫无疑问的是，S级轿车是一款力作，一款张扬地、几乎是自负地尽展汽车制造天赋的产品（假设这些特点能够同时并存的话）。
• Up South is a tour de force.
  《向南》是一部力作。
• Status Offline Herman Melville's Moby Dick was a tour de force.
  梅尔威尔的《白鲸》是一部力作。
• When it was first produced, the car was a technical Tour de force.
  当这辆车首次被制造出来的时候，它是技术上的杰作。
• His tour de force is an elephant sculpture.
  他的精心之作是一件大象雕塑。