英英释义
makeshift [ 'meikʃift ]
- n. something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
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adj.
done or made using whatever is available
"the rock served as a makeshift hammer"
同义词： improvised jury-rigged
以上来源于: WordNet
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
makeshift /ˈmeɪkˌʃɪft/ CET6+ TEM8
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ADJ Makeshift things are temporary and usually of poor quality, but they are used because there is nothing better available. 临时凑合的
例：...the cardboard boxes and makeshift shelters of the homeless.
…无家可归者的纸板箱和临时栖身处。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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A few cushions formed a makeshift bed.
临时用几个垫子拼了一张床。
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People are sprawled on makeshift beds in the cafeteria.
人们四仰八叉地躺在食堂里搭起的临时床铺上。
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That's likely because the rural poor are using the money as makeshift insurance policies against inclement weather, Ferraro says.
费拉罗说，这可能是因为农村贫困人口把这笔钱作为应对恶劣天气的临时保险政策。
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The cause of the blast is being investigated, but police say the vehicle may have been transporting a makeshift bomb.
VOA: standard.2010.04.01
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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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