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单词 lash-up
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lash-up
lash-up n. (a) a makeshift or hastily contrived improvisation; also attributive; (b) (see quot. 1925).
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > recourse > [noun] > making shift > that with which one makes shift
make-do1895
lash-up1898
Band-Aid1968
1898 W. P. Drury Tadpole of Archangel 86 Such a godforsaken lash-up of a bridge you never clapped eyes on!
1907 J. Masefield Tarpaulin Muster viii. 102 And down they all go—ship, and tea, and mate, and bishop, and general, and Jimmy and the whole lash-up.
1920 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 158/1 We..had been obliged to make ‘lash-up’ (i.e., makeshift) arrangements.
1924 P. P. Eckersley Captain Eckersley Explains i. 5 A ‘lash-up’ or experimental station was erected at the Marconi Works.
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 140 Lash-up, a failure. A fiasco. The break-down of anything.
1929 O. Harland Golden Plough iv. 97 Until we come to the present Imbroglio, the Glorious Lash-up of this very age.
1936 ‘Taffrail’ Mystery at Milford Haven 281 The boat..was what a blue~jacket would have called a ‘lash-up’, a thing of bits and pieces.
1958 Economist 13 Sept. 869/2 Black Knight is essentially a lash-up on which to test various designs of nose cone for the 2,500 mile ballistic weapon Blue Streak that should be ready for test in the early 1960s.
1962 W. Schirra in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 46 It [sc. the couch] was a simple bit of furniture compared to the lashup of tubing, fans, filters and tanks which was built around it.
1966 M. Woodhouse Tree Frog xxv. 182 We didn't have time for an instrument check. It's just a lash-up really.
1974 Exchange & Mart (South ed.) 27 June 53M/3 Rebuilt motor, not a lash-up.
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