单词 | makeshift |
释义 | makeshift (meɪkʃɪft ) adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] Makeshift things are temporary and usually of poor quality, but they are used because there is nothing better available. ...the cardboard boxes and makeshift shelters of the homeless. ...a makeshift coffee table. Synonyms: temporary, provisional, make-do, substitute Collocations: makeshift boat Fresh green herbs grow free on a makeshift boat, while dead fish float on the surface of contaminated water. Times, Sunday Times Thousands have died trying to cross the sea in makeshift boats. The Sun The missing men, the rescuers were told, had constructed makeshift boats salvaged from their destroyed ship and traveled south. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They lashed together logs and toppled them into a gap between boulders to create a rickety makeshift bridge over the thundering water. The Sun The waters swallow the little makeshift bridge, and can stay that high for up to five or six weeks. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They elude it by hoisting a fallen tree to act as a makeshift bridge across a narrow river channel. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The volunteers were to build makeshift bridges across the trench immediately in front of the fortifications and then place ladders against the walls of the position. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A teacher was added to the staff in a makeshift classroom created for the following school year. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Founded in 1969 in a makeshift classroom, the school began with 7 students. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When they turn up, however, they find themselves walking onto a set rigged out as a makeshift classroom. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She suggested unused offices may be turned into makeshift classrooms to help maintain social distancing. The Sun For a period, the students attended school in makeshift classrooms. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Predictably, producing gourmet food for celebrities from a makeshift kitchen can be far from glamorous. Times, Sunday Times A group of travellers have set up camp in the car park and put up a makeshift kitchen in one corner. Times, Sunday Times The couple remained in situ during the ten-month project, creating a makeshift kitchen in one of the bedrooms and gritting their teeth. Times, Sunday Times Outside an empty concrete building, two makeshift kitchens cook meals twice a day for everybody. Times, Sunday Times Until the first travel trailers became available in the 1930s, auto tourists adapted their cars by adding beds, makeshift kitchens and roof decks. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the middle of her makeshift raft, a piece of aircraft fuselage, she noticed a porthole and peered through it into the inky depths. Times, Sunday Times This can be done by construction of a makeshift raft or receiving outside help from the owner of a boat. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He constructed a makeshift raft and hid food and water provisions for his escape. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Shortly after he stepped onto a makeshift raft with several passengers, the raft sank. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many waded through the flooded streets with industrial-sized trashcans full of merchandise, which they floated on makeshift rafts. Christianity Today They play off the walls, off the side of the school on one side, off the side of the makeshift shack housing on the other. Times, Sunday Times It had a dirt runway of 2,700 meters and a passenger terminal in a makeshift shack cob wall covered with buriti-leaves. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some build makeshift shacks out of cardboard. The Sun Police were sent to evict 320 families in 2012 and, despite a court order, have continued raids on their makeshift shacks, burning them. Times, Sunday Times There they provide illegal water and electricity connections to hundreds of makeshift shacks. Times, Sunday Times She was taken out on a makeshift stretcher, which was like a ladder? Times, Sunday Times They bundle him off in a makeshift stretcher. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Subsequently, they are seen carrying the now blindfolded angel on a makeshift stretcher. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the chaotic aftermath, fans tore up advertising hoardings to use as makeshift stretchers and tried to administer first aid to the injured. The Sun The truth was as much a casualty that day as those who had been carried from the ground on makeshift stretchers. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 临时凑合的 Japanese: 当座しのぎの |
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