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

• It is a tour de force of metaphoric design. All the navigation in the interface, and most other interactions as well, were subordinated to the maintenance of spatial and physical metaphors.
  它是一个标准的漫游隐喻设计，界面中所有的导航及大多数其他交互附属于空间隐喻和物理隐喻。
• 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）。
• Status Offline Herman Melville's Moby Dick was a tour de force.
  梅尔威尔的《白鲸》是一部力作。
• Only time will tell where this will end but Manaudou's role as an invincible tour de force in Beijing looks far less stable today than it was a week or so ago.
  只有时间才会告诉我们哪里是此事的终点，但是马纳多扮演的角色是拥有无敌绝技的人物。参加北京奥运会与稳定的今天相比看起来有些遥远，但想解决此事是需要一周还是更长的时间呢？
• 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。
• Like most of our other investments, we invested in Lulu based on the strength, ambition and vision of its founder, Alexandra Chong, who is an absolute tour de force.
  与我们的大多数投资一样，我们之所以投资Lulu，是基于其创始人亚历山德拉o庄的实力、雄心和愿景。
• 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。
• His later work showed that his first novel was little more than a tour de force.
  他后来的作品表明他的第一部小说不过是一部聪明和玩弄技巧的作品。
• 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。