jury-rig 的 2 个定义
- Nautical. a temporary rig to replace a permanent rig that has been disabled, lost overboard, etc.
- any makeshift arrangement of machinery or the like.
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.
更多jury-rig例句
- 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.