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jerry-build

/jer-ee-bild/US // ˈdʒɛr iˌbɪld //

洁丽雅建筑,洁莉雅建筑,洁莉雅建筑公司,洁丽宝

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    jer·ry-built, jer·ry-build·ing.

    • : to build cheaply and flimsily.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inbuild
Forms: jerry-built

Examples

  • Those are saguaro cactuses…the big ones…birds make holes in them and build their nests inside.

  • Therefore, we should—you guessed it—develop the Canadian tar sands and build the Keystone pipeline.

  • “He could build studios and he understood technology,” Jackson told The Daily Beast.

  • The narrator is suggesting that they build a snowman that looks like a minister.

  • Regardless, few had been given any reason to believe they could build a life for themselves beyond the streets.

  • They lived at first in a tent; no time to build a house, till the wheat and vegetables were planted.

  • Now is the time to build for the future, and to avoid paying too much attention to immediate profits.

  • The birds that build them swallow a certain kind of glutinous weed growing on the coral rocks.

  • Ki Pak's servants proceeded to build a fire in the centre of the yard and the cook made preparations for getting supper.

  • To his astonishment, Lawrence recognized one of the guerrillas as Jerry Alcorn, his old time enemy.