jerry-rigged
偷工减料,偷工减料的,偷偷摸摸的,偷工减料的方式
Definitions
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- : Nautical. a temporary rig to replace a permanent rig that has been disabled, lost overboard, etc.
- : any makeshift arrangement of machinery or the like.
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ju·ry-rigged, ju·ry-rig·ging.
- : to assemble quickly or from whatever is at hand, especially for temporary use: to jury-rig stage lights using automobile headlights.
- : Nautical. to replace with a jury-rig: We jury-rigged a fore-topmast after the storm had snapped ours off.
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The 2001 grand jury indictment named 21 suspects as being involved in the U.S. embassy bombings, including Osama bin Laden.
A grand jury investigated but found Foster had broken no law.
A tugboat improbably sits high on the bank, obscured by tall grass, a broken oil rig hangs over the water nearby.
Had he been competently represented, the jury might well have failed to concur on a death sentence.
Widespread, popular protests began last week after the local grand jury decision.
In 1883 she served with many distinguished artists on the art jury of the International Exhibition at Amsterdam.
Seven months later Captain Preston and other soldiers implicated in the riot were tried before a Boston jury.
Governor S—— was a splendid lawyer, and could talk a jury out of their seven senses.
Eve looked very pretty in her skating rig, and she was a splendid skater, too.
Smith: No, my lud—ve're the rig'lar chimbly sveeps vot sveeps his ludship's chimblys.