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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
  1. 1

    ex·tem·po·rized, ex·tem·po·riz·ing.

    • : to make or devise extempore.
    • : Music. to compose offhand; improvise.

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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.