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    Jerry-built means put up , quickly, and badly. A jerry-built house may look finished, but the walls are thin, the work is careless, and it may not last. English uses it most about buildings. People also stretch it, a little loosely, to anything thrown together in a hurry — a stall, a plan, a piece of kit. It is not a kind word: it judges the work. Nobody knows for sure where the jerry part comes from. There are many stories, and none of them is solid, so it is wiser to learn the meaning than to repeat an origin. It is not about a man named Jerry, and it is not “jury-built.”

    偷工減料的、草草建成的

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成Origin unknown. There are many theories, including a possible link to the word jerry, but none is proven.

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

jerry-builtadj

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    Built cheaply and shoddily.

    • 1832, Liverpool Mercury, ‘…members of the Bluebell Club, the Jerry-Building society, &c…’ (via https://theprioryandthecastironshore.wordpress.com/2017/07/06/jerry-builder-origin-of-the-term/)
    • He had tried other building speculations, had run up other “jerry-built” houses, and had failed utterly, hopelessly.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。