makeshift
凑合的
definition
noun
We're looking at a matchup between makeshifts on Saturday.
a temporary substitute or device.
adjective
arranging a row of chairs to form a makeshift bed
serving as a temporary substitute; sufficient for the time being.
translation of 'makeshift'
noun
代用品
adjective
凑合的,
便
example
They were unloading RPG launchers and reinforcing a series of 'makeshift' bunkers on Thursday.
The looters are using 'makeshift' boats made of pieces of styrofoam to access.
Dark Days charts several years in the lives of the homeless who live in 'makeshift' shacks in the New York underground system.
Sometimes the hostels are full and homeless women are given 'makeshift' beds, she said.
We stayed there in the mountains eating what we could find, while living in 'makeshift' shelters.
All political parties are bound by their own ideological limits and do not want to make any 'makeshift' of it.
About 109,000 people are living in 'makeshift' shelters made from blue and white plastic sheeting.
it was only a 'makeshift' camp
Men used their Afghan shawls as 'makeshift' ropes to scale the stadium's walls.
On the way you pass through the sprawl of 'makeshift' dwellings that are home to tens of thousands of squatters.
Perhaps a few stone-aged Ciboney reached the island on 'makeshift' rafts of floating logs.
Several of the pairs had to do push-ups on 'makeshift' courts for losing points.
So 'makeshift' solutions were invented, revived and refined to get back a certain air of balance.
On this 'makeshift' stage women showed you their chuffs for a quid.
Taylor endured primitive living conditions and long marches between an endless series of 'makeshift' camps.
The children looked at her dully as they used the legs of the gates as 'makeshift' soccer goals.
So gone are the days when cruise travelers had to made do with 'makeshift' facilities.
All over town, he says, kids would be hitting golf balls, sometimes with 'makeshift' clubs.
Carers often find their own solutions from locked doors to 'makeshift' alarms to constant surveillance.
Victoria laid the fragile child in her arms on the hard wooden bench they used as a 'makeshift' bed.
Today, the home is also falling into disrepair, with junk and 'makeshift' sheds littering the massive garden.
I sat on the end of his 'makeshift' bed and we talked about his life, family, and fishing.
Sportsmen's Hall, it turned out, was much less grand than its name implied: all 'makeshifts' and mazes, narrow passages harbored by rude planks.
We're looking at a matchup between 'makeshifts' on Saturday.
Such 'makeshifts' were not uncommon among late-romantics.
The livelihood of most peasant families was an amalgam of 'makeshifts' .
Lambert clearly explains the ways in which solutions and 'makeshifts' were developed to answer, in the time available, the problems that the Royal Navy faced.
These hard-won, fond, wearisome, and implacable wives were, after all, just temporary 'makeshifts' .
Others recounted tales of the privations caused by the blockade and the 'makeshifts' necessitated by them.
May you once more take your stand on the side of Eternal Truth and not the 'makeshifts' that pass for truth, today.
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