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improvised

/im-pruh-vahyzd/US // ˈɪm prəˌvaɪzd //

即兴的,自制的,即兴创作的,即兴发挥

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : made or said without previous preparation: an improvised skit.

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Examples

  • It suggests a shared history, or at least a loosely improvised connection, like Thelonious Monk riffing on a theme, to after-hour jazz clubs in Harlem and soul-food shops in Los Angeles.

  • The countryman, scared as he was, began to hesitate, giving a different version of each question, a victim of his own nervous and improvised speech.

  • In a pinch, you can build improvised snowshoes and string of other related winter accoutrements.

  • During each turn, players build off ideas introduced by other players, and the whole experience ends up being a weird combination of game and improvised storytelling.

  • Half of it is taken up by the bunk beds and improvised benches.

  • “That was improvised quite a bit,” Travolta told The Daily Beast.

  • Within the enclosure, men sit on dirty couches, either improvised out of other materials or actual literal couches.

  • He patrolled on foot, and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) filled the donkey paths that crisscrossed the wadis and hills.

  • Yelena Fomina provides free psychological help at an improvised office occupying a former McDonalds ron the corner of the Maidan.

  • He was quick to observe and nothing escaped him, from the improvised candlesticks to the napkin by his china plate.

  • After his music lesson, or after having improvised for any length of time, he was invariably overwrought and excited.

  • He tried to jump, his foot caught, he slipped, and the next moment was lying full length in the improvised bed.

  • Great was my surprise, on entering the hall, to see near the platform an elegant improvised green-room, curtained off.

  • He waited until the guerrillas were within a few rods of the improvised breastworks, then ordered the men to fire.