Makeshift hospitals continue to struggle to treat the huge number of people injured in the earthquake.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

What would happen is these people who were enslaved from different cultures would develop a makeshift communication system so they could talk to one another.

这些来自不同文化的被奴役的个体,会创造出一种临时的交流系统,以便他们之间能够互相交流

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They take this makeshift communication system developed by adults and, again, they turn it into a full-blown language, suggesting that to some extent it's part of our human nature to create languages.

他们继承了成人发展出来的临时交流系统,将这个临时交流系统,再次发展成一种成熟的语言,这表明从某种程度上来说,创造语言是我们人类本性的一部分

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Almost 50 children, from toddlers to teenagers, squeeze onto wooden benches in a makeshift structure.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

In the more than 30 tent cities hosting thousands of people made homeless by last Monday's 6.3 magnitude earthquake, priests offered communion wafers at makeshift altars.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

He says they are living in makeshift sites in squalid conditions.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

They describe their grueling hours in poor, makeshift facilities.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29