pie S2 / paɪ / 名词 [可数和不可数名词]

1 fruit baked inside a pastry covering

slice/piece of pie

Would you like another piece of apple pie?

2 British English meat or vegetables baked inside a pastry or potato covering :

I had steak and kidney pie with chips.

3 slice/share/piece of the pie a share of something such as money, profits etc :

The smaller companies want a bigger share of the pie.

4 pie in the sky something good that someone says will happen, but which you think is impossible or unlikely :

Hope of a cure is just pie in the sky. → mud pie , pie chart , → easy as pie at easy 1 ( 1 ) , → eat humble pie at humble 1 ( 6 ) , → have a finger in every pie at finger 1 ( 7 ) , → be as nice as pie at nice ( 11 )