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Definition of makeshift in English: makeshiftadjective ˈmeɪkʃɪftˈmeɪkˌʃɪft 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。 Example sentencesExamples - About 109,000 people are living in makeshift shelters made from blue and white plastic sheeting.
- All over town, he says, kids would be hitting golf balls, sometimes with makeshift clubs.
- Carers often find their own solutions from locked doors to makeshift alarms to constant surveillance.
- The looters are using makeshift boats made of pieces of styrofoam to access.
- The children looked at her dully as they used the legs of the gates as makeshift soccer goals.
- Several of the pairs had to do push-ups on makeshift courts for losing points.
- So gone are the days when cruise travelers had to made do with makeshift facilities.
- On this makeshift stage women showed you their chuffs for a quid.
- They were unloading RPG launchers and reinforcing a series of makeshift bunkers on Thursday.
- Perhaps a few stone-aged Ciboney reached the island on makeshift rafts of floating logs.
- Sometimes the hostels are full and homeless women are given makeshift beds, she said.
- I sat on the end of his makeshift bed and we talked about his life, family, and fishing.
- Taylor endured primitive living conditions and long marches between an endless series of makeshift camps.
- Victoria laid the fragile child in her arms on the hard wooden bench they used as a makeshift bed.
- Men used their Afghan shawls as makeshift ropes to scale the stadium's walls.
- So makeshift solutions were invented, revived and refined to get back a certain air of balance.
- On the way you pass through the sprawl of makeshift dwellings that are home to tens of thousands of squatters.
- Dark Days charts several years in the lives of the homeless who live in makeshift shacks in the New York underground system.
- Today, the home is also falling into disrepair, with junk and makeshift sheds littering the massive garden.
- We stayed there in the mountains eating what we could find, while living in makeshift shelters.
Synonyms temporary, make-do, provisional, stopgap, standby, rough and ready, substitute, emergency, improvised, ad hoc, impromptu, extemporary, extempore, thrown together, cobbled together Nautical jury-rigged, jury informal quick and dirty
noun ˈmeɪkʃɪftˈmeɪkˌʃɪft A temporary substitute or device. 权宜之计；临时替代物 Example sentencesExamples - The livelihood of most peasant families was an amalgam of makeshifts.
- Such makeshifts were not uncommon among late-romantics.
- Great conflicts of ideas must be solved by straight and frank methods; they cannot be solved by artifices and makeshifts.
- We're looking at a matchup between makeshifts on Saturday.
- This book represents the single most significant attempt in print to supply the English ‘economy of makeshifts’ with a solid, empirical basis.
- The reason why we put up with all these makeshifts is because we are so poor that we cannot help it.
- Lambert clearly explains the ways in which solutions and makeshifts were developed to answer, in the time available, the problems that the Royal Navy faced.
- These hard-won, fond, wearisome, and implacable wives were, after all, just temporary makeshifts.
- Sportsmen's Hall, it turned out, was much less grand than its name implied: all makeshifts and mazes, narrow passages harbored by rude planks.
- May you once more take your stand on the side of Eternal Truth and not the makeshifts that pass for truth, today.
- All political parties are bound by their own ideological limits and do not want to make any makeshift of it.
- Others recounted tales of the privations caused by the blockade and the makeshifts necessitated by them.
Definition of makeshift in US English: makeshiftadjectiveˈmeɪkˌʃɪftˈmākˌSHift Serving as a temporary substitute; sufficient for the time being. arranging a row of chairs to form a makeshift bed 摆一排椅子凑成一张临时的床。 Example sentencesExamples - The looters are using makeshift boats made of pieces of styrofoam to access.
- On the way you pass through the sprawl of makeshift dwellings that are home to tens of thousands of squatters.
- Carers often find their own solutions from locked doors to makeshift alarms to constant surveillance.
- Dark Days charts several years in the lives of the homeless who live in makeshift shacks in the New York underground system.
- Taylor endured primitive living conditions and long marches between an endless series of makeshift camps.
- About 109,000 people are living in makeshift shelters made from blue and white plastic sheeting.
- On this makeshift stage women showed you their chuffs for a quid.
- Men used their Afghan shawls as makeshift ropes to scale the stadium's walls.
- So makeshift solutions were invented, revived and refined to get back a certain air of balance.
- The children looked at her dully as they used the legs of the gates as makeshift soccer goals.
- They were unloading RPG launchers and reinforcing a series of makeshift bunkers on Thursday.
- Several of the pairs had to do push-ups on makeshift courts for losing points.
- We stayed there in the mountains eating what we could find, while living in makeshift shelters.
- Sometimes the hostels are full and homeless women are given makeshift beds, she said.
- Victoria laid the fragile child in her arms on the hard wooden bench they used as a makeshift bed.
- All over town, he says, kids would be hitting golf balls, sometimes with makeshift clubs.
- I sat on the end of his makeshift bed and we talked about his life, family, and fishing.
- Perhaps a few stone-aged Ciboney reached the island on makeshift rafts of floating logs.
- Today, the home is also falling into disrepair, with junk and makeshift sheds littering the massive garden.
- So gone are the days when cruise travelers had to made do with makeshift facilities.
Synonyms temporary, make-do, provisional, stopgap, standby, rough and ready, substitute, emergency, improvised, ad hoc, impromptu, extemporary, extempore, thrown together, cobbled together
nounˈmeɪkˌʃɪftˈmākˌSHift A temporary substitute or device. 权宜之计；临时替代物 Example sentencesExamples - Lambert clearly explains the ways in which solutions and makeshifts were developed to answer, in the time available, the problems that the Royal Navy faced.
- This book represents the single most significant attempt in print to supply the English ‘economy of makeshifts’ with a solid, empirical basis.
- Others recounted tales of the privations caused by the blockade and the makeshifts necessitated by them.
- The livelihood of most peasant families was an amalgam of makeshifts.
- All political parties are bound by their own ideological limits and do not want to make any makeshift of it.
- These hard-won, fond, wearisome, and implacable wives were, after all, just temporary makeshifts.
- We're looking at a matchup between makeshifts on Saturday.
- Great conflicts of ideas must be solved by straight and frank methods; they cannot be solved by artifices and makeshifts.
- May you once more take your stand on the side of Eternal Truth and not the makeshifts that pass for truth, today.
- Such makeshifts were not uncommon among late-romantics.
- The reason why we put up with all these makeshifts is because we are so poor that we cannot help it.
- Sportsmen's Hall, it turned out, was much less grand than its name implied: all makeshifts and mazes, narrow passages harbored by rude planks.
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