jigsaw

noun

/ˈdʒɪɡsɔː/

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(also jigsaw puzzle)
(also puzzle especially in North American English)
a picture printed on cardboard (= very thick, stiff card) or wood, that has been cut up into a lot of small pieces of different shapes that you have to fit together again拼图；拼板玩具
- to do a jigsaw玩拼图
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Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- giant
- huge
- 200-piece
- …
… of jigsaw
- bit
- piece
verb + jigsaw
- do
- piece together
- finish
- …
jigsaw + noun
- puzzle
- piece
phrases
- a piece in a jigsaw
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a mysterious situation in which it is not easy to understand all the causes of what is happening; a complicated problem神秘莫测的事物；谜团
- If Hollis was a double agent then the Crabb affair fits neatly into the jigsaw.如果霍利斯是一个双重间谍，那么克拉布事件完全符合这个拼图。
Extra Examples
- One piece of the jigsaw is still missing.拼图还少一片。
- The police managed to piece together the jigsaw and reconstruct the victim's last hours.警方成功地将线索拼在一起，重现了受害人生前最后几个小时的情景。
- This is another piece in the jigsaw that will help us understand the biology of cancer.这是可以帮助我们理解癌症形成规律的另外一个关键点。
a saw (= a type of tool) with a narrow blade for cutting designs in thin pieces of wood or metal线锯；镂花锯；钢丝锯