by the piece

基本解释

Everything here is sold by the piece.
这里的所有东西都按件出售。
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"The nightmares for a tightwad are sushi by the piece or a taxi where you have to watch the meter running, " Loewenstein says.
Loewenstein说：“对于一个吝啬鬼而言，噩梦可能就是看到寿司涨价或者打车的时候看到计价器在飞涨”。
One oddity is that all produce is sold by the piece, with no scales in sight, making it difficult to compare loose items like broccoli or squash that are elsewhere priced by the pound.
有一个怪事就是所有的农产品都是论个儿卖的，你也看不到磅秤，这样对于比较像花椰菜或者果汁汽水就困难了，其他地方都论磅卖。

His idea for the original drawing came from a piece of music by the English composer Ralph Vaughn-Williams.
I was strucked by what I found in the New York Times December 8th, a piece writen by an army officer.
我感到非常震惊,12月8号，我在纽约时报，看到了一篇军官写的文章。
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Well I ought to be able to do that by simply generalizing the loop. And that's what the next piece of code on your a hand out shows you.
好的通过生成这个循环,我应该能够达到目的,这也是你们的讲义中下一段代码。
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That was the main reason they kept their jobs, which paid by the piece, and not very much.
NEWYORKER: The House Behind a Weeping Cherry