“jerry、built”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

jerry-built

释义

ˈjerry-ˈbuilt, a.
[See prec.]
Built unsubstantially of bad materials; built to sell but not to last. Also fig.
1869Lonsdale Gloss., Jerry-built, slightly, or unsubstantially built.1875Ruskin Fors Clav. V. 263 Rows of jerry-built cottages are creeping up.1900G. C. Brodrick Mem. & Impr. 316 It would soon be overspread by vulgar jerry-built villas.1901Daily Chron. 13 Aug. 3/2 In an age of jerry-built books it is refreshing to come across a volume that has taken forty years to compile.1903Ibid. 20 Feb. 3/2 Fiction, he said, was now jerry-built.1933J. Baillie And Life Everlasting (1934) i. 15 That great cataclysm undoubtedly came as a rude shock to many jerry-built philosophies of life.

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