单词 | jerry-built |
释义 | jerry-built (once / 47278 pages) adj WORD FAMILY jerry-built USAGE EXAMPLESThere is no hint of shabby desperation in these effects, of the sense of a spook house jerry-built over a well-worn drama. New York Times(Mar 31, 2016) His role would be to transform Lawrence’s ideas and Edlefsen’s jerry-built apparatus into an accelerator that worked. Michael Hiltzik, Big Science(2015) The root problem here is the jerry-built nature of the attention economy itself, in which everybody participates but most people only semiconsciously consent to. Time(Oct 08, 2015) adj of inferior workmanship and materials mean little jerry-built houses Syn shoddy weak wanting in physical strength |
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