extemporized
/ik-stem-puh-rahyz/US // ɪkˈstɛm pəˌraɪz //UK // (ɪkˈstɛmpəˌraɪz) //
即兴发挥,即兴表演,即兴创作,即兴发挥的
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v.无主动词 verb
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ex·tem·po·rized, ex·tem·po·riz·ing.
- : to speak extemporaneously: He can extemporize on any of a number of subjects.
- : to sing, or play on an instrument, composing the music as one proceeds; improvise.
- : to do or manage something in a makeshift way.
v.有主动词 verb
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ex·tem·po·rized, ex·tem·po·riz·ing.
- : to make or devise extempore.
- : Music. to compose offhand; improvise.
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verbimprovise
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Examples
The small jelly-speck, which we call the amœba, has no organs save what it can extemporize as occasion arises.
If you extemporize you can get much closer to your audience.
I have known but one other person besides Hook, who could extemporize in English; and he wanted the confidence to do it in public.
Yet another use, on which much ingenuity was expended in the 18th century, is to extemporize retrenchments.
My saddle, a hunting one, could not be kept in place, and we had to extemporize a breast-plate with string.
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