He was still sitting in the office all alone trying to piece together what had gone wrong.
In this sentence, What does “piece together” mean?
彼は、依然として職場に一人で残り、何がうまくいかなかったのかをーー個別の事柄をまとめてみることでーー全体的に理解しようとしていた。
“Determine,” “figure out,” with the implication that the failure came from a series of steps over a period of time.
The expression comes from the idea of trying to re-assemble something broken, like a ceramic mug.
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