tour de force

/toor duh -fawrs, -fohrs; French toor duh -fawrs/US // ˌtʊər də ˈfɔrs, -ˈfoʊrs; French tur də ˈfɔrs //

巡回演出,巡回演唱会,巡回赛,巡回展

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural tours de force [toorz duh -fawrs, -fohrs; French toor duh -fawrs]. /ˌtʊərz də ˈfɔrs, -ˈfoʊrs; French tur də ˈfɔrs/.
- : an exceptional achievement by an artist, author, or the like, that is unlikely to be equaled by that person or anyone else; stroke of genius: Herman Melville's Moby Dick was a tour de force.
- : a particularly adroit maneuver or technique in handling a difficult situation: The way the president got his bill through the Senate was a tour de force.
- : a feat requiring unusual strength, skill, or ingenuity.

nounspectacular achievement

Synonyms

In her aching memoir, she embarks on a tour de force examination of her childhood, marked first by her mother’s abandoning her when she was a toddler and later by the death of her beloved father.
Through the late 1960s, Capote claimed to be writing his masterpiece, his tour de force based on his swans, but several deadlines passed for it.
At 35, Hawa Hassan is already a tour de force when it comes to Somali food in America.
Understated yet opulent, measured, and intensely creepy, it’s a tour de force in balancing uncomfortable levels of tension and suspense with deep pathos.
Page’s tour de force performance in Hard Candy led, two years later, to Juno, a low-budget indie film that brought Page Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations and sudden megafame.
In the last year, her fusion exercise class has attracted a cult following and become de rigueur among the celebrity set.
Yet for a vivid decade or so, sleaze was, somewhat paradoxically, a force for literacy and empowerment.
Shortly after dawn, there was another outbreak of deadly force.
They tried to continue their getaway but had to quickly abandon their vehicle on the Rue de Meaux in the 19th.
And Air Force assessors are the first to say such imaging never tells the whole story.
Madame de Condillac stood watching him, her face composed, her glance cold.
Then the door opened, the portiere was swept aside, and Anselme announced "Monsieur de Garnache."

/toor duh -fawrs, -fohrs; French toor duh -fawrs/US // ˌtʊər də ˈfɔrs, -ˈfoʊrs; French tur də ˈfɔrs //

巡回演出,巡回演唱会,巡回赛,巡回展

n.名词 noun

1
plural tours de force [toorz duh -fawrs, -fohrs; French toor duh -fawrs]. /ˌtʊərz də ˈfɔrs, -ˈfoʊrs; French tur də ˈfɔrs/.
- : an exceptional achievement by an artist, author, or the like, that is unlikely to be equaled by that person or anyone else; stroke of genius: Herman Melville's Moby Dick was a tour de force.
- : a particularly adroit maneuver or technique in handling a difficult situation: The way the president got his bill through the Senate was a tour de force.
- : a feat requiring unusual strength, skill, or ingenuity.

nounspectacular achievement

Synonyms

In her aching memoir, she embarks on a tour de force examination of her childhood, marked first by her mother’s abandoning her when she was a toddler and later by the death of her beloved father.
Through the late 1960s, Capote claimed to be writing his masterpiece, his tour de force based on his swans, but several deadlines passed for it.
At 35, Hawa Hassan is already a tour de force when it comes to Somali food in America.
Understated yet opulent, measured, and intensely creepy, it’s a tour de force in balancing uncomfortable levels of tension and suspense with deep pathos.
Page’s tour de force performance in Hard Candy led, two years later, to Juno, a low-budget indie film that brought Page Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations and sudden megafame.
In the last year, her fusion exercise class has attracted a cult following and become de rigueur among the celebrity set.
Yet for a vivid decade or so, sleaze was, somewhat paradoxically, a force for literacy and empowerment.
Shortly after dawn, there was another outbreak of deadly force.
They tried to continue their getaway but had to quickly abandon their vehicle on the Rue de Meaux in the 19th.
And Air Force assessors are the first to say such imaging never tells the whole story.
Madame de Condillac stood watching him, her face composed, her glance cold.
Then the door opened, the portiere was swept aside, and Anselme announced "Monsieur de Garnache."