makeshift
['meik.ʃift]
adj.临时的
n.临时替代物
例句与用法:
Gathered branches and grasses for a makeshift camp; had a fishing camp in Vermont.
收集树枝和草做一个临时小棚; 在佛蒙特州有一个钓鱼的营房
A crude or makeshift bed.
简易床简陋的或权作使用的床
A crude or makeshift dwelling or shelter; a shack.
简陋小屋,茅屋粗糙的临时住房或隐蔽处; 棚屋
n.
临时代用品; 权宜之计[C]
Use an empty crate as a makeshift for a table.
用空板条箱权充桌子。
a.
临时代用的; 权宜的[B]
They made a makeshift table from boxes.
他们把箱子做成一张临时用的桌子。
makeshift
名词复数:makeshifts
词义辨析:
同义参见:
extemporaneous
utility
makeshift['meikʃift]n.1.■临时代用品;权宜之计adj.1.■临时代用的;暂时凑合的,权宜的 [亦作 makeshifty]近义词resource
adjective
- acting as an interim and temporary measure
权宜的;临时的
arranging a row of chairs to form a makeshift bed.
摆一排椅子凑成一张临时的床。
- a temporary substitute or device
权宜之计;临时替代物
makeshift
名词 makeshift:
something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
形容词 makeshift:
done or made using whatever is available
同义词:improvised, jury-rigged
makeshift
■A man pushes a girl on a makeshift raft down a flooded road in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata July 3, 2007.
2007年7月3日,在印度东部城市加尔格达一条被洪水淹没的路上,一男子推着坐在临时凑合救生艇上的小女孩前行.
■On May 9th and 10th 480 civilian refugees are reported to have been brought dead or dying to a makeshift hospital in the war-zone, victims of shellfire.
5月9日与10日,有480名已死或将死的难民被送往战区的一个临时医院,成为炮火的牺牲品。
■In the town of Quincy, Illinois, 20 fawns rescued from an overflowing levee were being bottle-fed at a makeshift shelter on June 23.
6月23号,在伊利诺伊州昆西市,20只小鹿从大坝上溢出的洪水里被解救出来,现在人们在临时避难所对小鹿进行人工喂养。
■Jul. 29: the program of “Makeshift Shelter for Disaster Victims” was subsidized by Narada Foundation.
7月29日,“推广灾民互助过渡安置房”项目获得南都公益基金会资助。
■Mohamad Kabir sits in front of his makeshift shelter with his only surviving immediate family member, his son, Wajid.
Mohamad Kabir坐在他的临时住所前,和他在一起的是他的儿子Wajid,也是他唯一幸存的直系家人。
■A father holds his daughter awaiting treatment at a makeshift trauma facility.
一个父亲抱着自己的女儿等待治疗。
■A makeshift boat and sail have been flung together and there are soldiers in it trying to paddle.
一个简易船和帆被仓促地装在一起,有士兵在里面努力划桨。
■A classic hat and a makeshift coat keep the rain off a za, or elder woman, as she chats with neighbors on the way to weed her rice field outside the village.
一位“扎”(老妇人)用一顶传统的斗笠和一件凑合的雨衣遮雨,在去村寨外稻田里除草的路上与邻居聊天。
■"As other family members relax along the Rio Grande on the Mexican border, a mother dips her reluctant infant into a makeshift bathtub.
一位母亲把她那不情愿的孩子浸入临时“浴缸”里,一如其它墨西哥边境上的格兰德河家庭的放松方式。
■Using a piece of vegetation as a makeshift pillow, a pair of elephant seals cuddle on the beach.
一对象海豹用一丛植物当作临时枕头,相拥而眠。
■A sarong works as a towel, a skirt, a makeshift bag, a scarf, a sheet.
一条纱笼可以用作毛巾、围裙、即时代用包、围巾、床单。
■A static fortification made out of the nearest material that comes to hand, GLA infantry can be stationed inside this makeshift bunker.
一种利用手边的材料制成的静态防御工事。GLA的步兵可以进驻到这种类似的堡垒中。
■Friday evening, about 30 corpses, wrapped in bright yellow body bags, lay on the ground at a nearby playing field that has been turned into a makeshift morgue.
上周五晚间,在东汽中学倒塌建筑附近一个被临时辟作停尸地的操场上,有约30具尸体被装在淡黄色的裹尸袋内。
■Indeed, not long ago residents here grew so angry that they blocked the road that passes through town by forming huge dirt mounds as a makeshift barricade against coal-bearing trucks.
不久前,越来越愤怒的村民,曾用障碍物堵住了道路,不让运送废弃物的卡车通过。
■Different stores in the mall offer players an endless supply of makeshift weapons including a shovel, nailgun, chainsaw, and lawnmower.
不同的商店,商场在提供成员的无休止的供应简易武器,其中包括一张铁锨,指甲枪,电锯,和割草机。
■Don't use makeshift scaffolds such as a chair balanced on a desk when you are reaching for something overhead. Take the time to get a stepladder or stepstool.
不要用诸如将凳子放在桌子上等凑和的脚手架来拿高处的东西。去找一个梯子或登高工具.
■Do not attempt a makeshift repair on a faulty tool. Report it to the supervisor and have it properly maintained / repaired.
不要试图在有问题的工具上作改进,向上司汇报,让工具得到正确的维护和修理。
■But discontent could mount for the millions of people still living in makeshift shelters and questions are beginning to surface about whether many of the deaths may have been avoided.
不过仍住在临时安置点的数百万人可能会越来越感到不满,而且很多伤亡是否本可以避免的问题也开始浮出水面。
■But cars and trucks had been using a makeshift crossing to get from Tyre to Beirut and back.
不过小车和大卡车都通过一条凑合用的公路往返于提尔和贝鲁特之间。
■A few cushions formed a makeshift bed.
临时用几个垫子拼了一张床。
■A makeshift memorial shows captured soldiers Ehud Goldwasser, left, and Eldad Regev.
临时的记念牌上画着被俘士兵Ehud Goldwasser(左)和Eldad Regev的画像。
■Improvised a dinner for the unexpected guests;improvise a makeshift tourniquet.
为不速之客准备晚餐;提供备用的止血带
■A makeshift bed was rigged up for the sick person.
为病人临时搭了一张床。
■While Paul Robinson and Joe Cole presumably did not appear on Eriksson's makeshift list, which would have included three central defenders in Terry, Rio Ferdinand and Campbell, the Swede's positive attitude could at least not be faulted.
也许保罗罗宾逊和乔科尔不会出现在大名单中,当然只要有包含特里、迪南德和坎贝尔三名中卫,那么瑞典人的积极态度至少不会出现太大纰漏。
■So once again, we moved relief goods across another makeshift bridge into the hands of more disaster victims who desperately needed them.
于是我们再次越过另一座临时便挢,将物资运送到最需救援的许多灾民手中。
■The makeshift fare would have to sustain him through the night.
今天他就得靠这些七拼八凑的食物过夜了。
■My mind went into fast-forward as I pictured the three of them going without even a single meal today, perhaps for several days, and spending many long, cold hours cooped up in their inadequate, makeshift shelter.
他们三个今天连一顿饭也没吃上,也许已经饿了几天,挤在难以抵挡风吹雨打临时凑合的住处度过许多寒冷难熬的夜晚,想到这些我思绪万千。
■They did their homework, looked to take the game to us, and took advantage of our makeshift back four.
他们专门针对我们做好了功课的,抓住了我们临时拼凑的后防的弱点。
■They performed on a makeshift stage of wood planks.
他们在一个用木板搭的临时舞台上演出。
■They are creative with their limited space, rolling back their bedrolls and using the boards beneath as makeshift tables.
他们在有限的空间里充分发挥着创造力,把铺盖卷起来,将下面的床板当作桌子使用。
■They made a makeshift table from boxes.
他们把箱子做成一张临时用的桌子。
■Their makeshift encampment is in the center of Martyrs' Square.
他们的临时扎营点在烈士广场中心。
■They say that they were effectively floating down the Tigris and that they were caught up on a makeshift portable dam.
他们说这些尸体沿着底格里斯河顺流而下,在一痤临时修筑的水坝处被挡住了。
■They also played a game of soccer with a makeshift soccer ball( fashioned by the Germans).
他们还找了个临时的足球(国样式的)了场比赛。
■They also played a game of soccer with a makeshift soccer ball (fashioned by the Germans).
他们还找了个临时的足球(德国样式的)踢了场比赛。
■Ramshackle house with a wicker door and makeshift windows fashioned out of broken jars; the house of an impoverished family.
他家虽然桑户蓬枢、生活贫苦,但在买书方面从来都很舍得花钱。
■He had a little countertop with a makeshift cupboard near the door and a larger wardrobe beside it.
他房间里有一间浴室。他有个工作台也有比较大的衣柜。
■His party, itself a makeshift coalition, has only a fifth of the seats in the lower house and a third in the upper.
他的政党本身也是一个临时的联盟,在下院只有五分之一的议席,在上院占到三分之一的席位。
■Tents, however, are a problem.Officials say there are still far from enough proper ones.Many refugees are sheltering under makeshift tarpaulin structures.
但帐篷仍然是个大问题,官方称数量远远不够,许多灾民不得不在油布搭建的简易帐篷下暂栖。
■But most of those repatriated to the same dire conditions they had fled have trickled back to squat in makeshift shelters and camps just across the border.
但是大多数人被遣返回他们之前已经逃离的同样可怕的境地后,又慢慢流回边境这边,占据着临时掩体和营地。
■But the makeshift boat, with a prow jutting out of the front and a taxi sign on the roof, was intercepted by the U.S.Coast Guard about 32 km off Key West on the southern tip of Florida.
但这艘前方有一块突出于船首、船顶还有计程车标志的临时船只,却在佛罗里达州南端的基威斯特外海三十二公里处,遭美国海岸防卫队拦截。
■Rescuers in blue uniforms carried more bodies out of a makeshift morgue at the sports arena.
体育场上,蓝色制服的营救人员将更多尸体从临时停尸间内运出。
■You often need to come up with a makeshift solution, such using soap because you've run out of shaving cream, because you don't have what you need.
你经常需要想到一个临时解决方法,例如:因为没有剃须膏而使用肥皂,因为你没有所需要的东西。
■Wishing everyone on Earth, and off Earth, a good Thanksgiving," said Endeavour astronaut Donald Pettit, holding iced tea in a makeshift cup he had made from plastic covers of shuttle reference books.
佩提特举起盛有冰茶的塑料杯说:“大家感恩节快乐!祝愿地球上和地球之外的所有人节日快乐!”他们用的塑料杯是唐纳德临时用太空飞船参考书的塑料封皮做的。
■Use makeshift smoker on a beehive. Open beehive when they are now asleep.
使用在蜂箱上,当蜜蜂昏睡后打开蜂箱。
■Xueshashou: As other family members relax along the Rio Grande on the Mexican border, a mother dips her reluctant infant into a makeshift bathtub.
像其他许多家庭成员在墨西哥边缘的格兰特河边放松一样,一位母亲将那她的不情愿婴儿浸入临时浴缸中。
■Other waste materials were dumped haphazardly in makeshift excavations either at the factory side or throughout the country side.
其他废弃物质被草率地埋在临时挖掘在工厂还有乡村旁边的坑洞里面。
■Army officials have blamed such incidents on impostors dressed in makeshift fatigues.
军方官员将这类事件归咎于穿假制服的冒名者。
■Army trucks and troop carriers crossed the Litani River using makeshift bridges to a welcome from crowds throwing rice and flowers.
军用卡车和运兵车通过临时桥梁穿越利塔尼河,接受人们稻谷和鲜花的欢迎。
■Peasants retained a natural relation of economy and consanguinity.So they regarded going out for work as makeshift.
农民在经济上和血缘上与农村保持着天然的联系,一般将外出打工视为权宜之计;