pie
pie1
noun
as —— as pie
pie2
noun
pie3
noun
noun
- a baked dish of fruit, or meat and vegetables, typically with a top and base of pastry
馅饼
as —— as pie
- (informal)very ——
(非正式)非常…
using the camera was as easy as pie.
使用相机非常容易。
- extremely pleasant or polite
极愉快（或有礼貌）的
- a share of an amount of money or business available to be claimed or distributed
（等待领取或分配的）金钱或业务份额
orchestras have seen cultural rivals get a bigger piece of the pie.
管弦乐队发现其文化竞争对手占据了更大的一份市场份额。
- (informal)used to describe or refer to something that is pleasant to contemplate but is very unlikely to be realized
(非正式)渺茫的幸福；来世的福分
- Middle English: probably the same word as pie, the various combinations of ingredients being compared to objects randomly collected by a magpie
pie2
noun
- used in names of birds that resemble the magpie, especially in having black-and-white plumage, e.g. sea-pie, tree pie
［用在跟喜鹊相似的鸟类名称之中，尤其是有黑白相间羽毛的鸟类，如sea-pie, tree pie]…鹊
- Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pica 'magpie' (related to picus 'green woodpecker')
pie3
noun
- a former monetary unit in the Indian subcontinent, equal to one twelfth of an anna
派（旧时印度次大陆内通行的一种货币单位，12派等于1安那）
- from Hindi pā'ï, from Sanskrit pada, padï 'quarter'
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