jerry-built

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英英释义

jerry-built[ 'dʒeribilt ]

adj.of inferior workmanship and materials

"mean little jerry-built houses"

同义词：shoddy

用法：

权威例句

Jerry-built

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Jerry-built careers

Jerry-built monster

Rongerik house - this one a "jerry-built"affair.

"JERRY-BUILD": "JERRY-BUILT."

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英语词源：

jerry-built

jerry-built: [19] In the absence of any watertight evidence, many theories have been put forward to account for this adjective (first recorded in 1869). One (touted in newspaper correspondence as early as 1884) holds that it immortalizes the incompetence of a firm of Liverpool builders named Jerry, but no proof of that has ever been found. Another would link it, ingeniously, with the walls of Jericho, which fell down as soon as Joshua blew his trumpet.

jerry-built (adj.)

1869, in which jerry has a sense of "bad, defective," probably a pejorative use of the male nickname Jerry (a popular form of Jeremy; compare Jerry-sneak, mid-19c., "sneaking fellow, a hen-pecked husband" [OED]). Or from or influenced by nautical slang jury "temporary," which came to be used of all sorts of makeshift and inferior objects (see jury (adj.)).

造句：

1. The place is a bit jerry-built.

这个地方有点偷工减料。

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2. Over the decades, our courtyard's central open space has been crowded by jerry-built kitchens and additional rooms.

多年来，我们院子里的空地被各种自建的简易厨房和临时搭建的房间占满了。

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3. Then the depression had thrown almost everybody out of work and the jerry-built houses had been neglected, and as rudolph's mother complained, the entire town had become a single slum.

接着，经济萧条差不多使所有的人都失了业，那些偷工减料盖成的房子也都无人照料；正如鲁道的母亲所抱怨的那样，整个市镇简直成了一个贫民窟。

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4. Enterprising locals have built riverside bars hawking the national pride, "Beerlao, " and jerry-rigged flywires over the river.

有进取的当地人在河岸建设具有民族自豪感的酒吧，“老挝啤酒”，而英国人操纵着这条河流。

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5. While Jerry Seinfeld famously insisted on "no hugs and no learning," "Modern Family" is built around the opposite idea: no problem is too big it can't be swept under a hug.

《宋飞正传》里的宋飞坚持“不拥抱、不学习”，而《摩登家庭》的理念与此恰恰相反：没有什么问题是一个拥抱解决不了的。

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6. Jim Collins and Jerry Porras were largely responsible for a revival of interest in the "visioning thing" in the mid-1990s with their best-selling book "Built to Last".

20世纪90年代中期，籍着合作的畅销书《基业常青》，吉姆·科林斯和杰里·波勒斯对“愿景塑造”的复兴作出了主要的贡献。

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7. That jerry - built cabin will blow apart in a strong wind.

那间草草建起的小屋一阵强风就会被吹走的。

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8. Other engines and projects -jerry has built numerous other interesting steam and IC engines, a CAM grinder and other projects that are detailed here.

其他引擎和项目-杰里已建立许多其他有趣的蒸气和内燃机，凸轮磨床和其他项目，是详细在这里。

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9. These include, for example, "in Search of Excellence" by Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman, "Built to Last" by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, and "Good to Great" by Jim Collins.

这些措施包括，例如，“追求卓越”的托马斯·彼得斯和罗伯特·沃特曼，“建到最后”的吉姆·柯林斯和杰里·波拉斯，并说：“很伟大”的吉姆·柯林斯。

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10. These include, for example, "in Search of Excellence" by Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman, "Built to Last" by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, and "Good to Great" by Jim Collins.

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