jerrybuild

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To assemble a project in a hasty, sloppy manner, especially using cheap, inferior or improvised materials. transitive
    — It was a queer-looking hovel, built of galvanised iron and kerosene-cans and bark and saplings and bamboo, according to no definite plan, and obviously, to knowing eyes, by one of those masters of the craft of jerry-building […]
  2. To assemble a structure in such an unsafe manner that it is doomed to collapse.
  3. To repair a structure in a sloppy or unsafe manner.

词形变化

jerrybuilds present,singular,third-person jerrybuilding participle,present jerrybuilt participle,past jerrybuilt past

词汇关系

相关词
jerryrig

词源

Blend of jerry + build; unknown origin; see jerry (possibly etymologically related).
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