喜樂美語
  1. 1臨時湊合的、權宜的

    Makeshift means you did not have the right thing, so you built a stand-in for now. A makeshift bed on the floor. A makeshift tent from a sheet. A makeshift hospital in a school hall after a storm. It is not meant to last, and it is not meant to be beautiful; it is meant to get you through. As a noun, a makeshift is that stand-in itself. The word comes from an old phrase, make shift: to manage, to get by with what you have. First written down around 1554. Shift here is not a work shift; it is an old word for a way of managing. The thing can be clever, but the word still says: this is temporary, and everyone knows it.

From the word’s history

Noun from make shift; first seen c. 1554.

由片語 make shift（設法應付）轉成名詞，約 1554 年首見。

Wiktionary

組成Deverbal from make shift (“manage, get by”). First appears c. 1554. Shift here is an old word for a way of managing, not a turn at work.

同家族的字

  • makefrom the old phrase make shift, “manage / get by”
  • shiftshift in the old sense “a way of managing,” not a work shift

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

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makeshiftnoun詞源 1/ˈmeɪkˌʃɪft/

  • 1

    A temporary (usually insubstantial) substitution.

    • And I am not a model clergyman—only a decent makeshift.
    • Hoboism cannot be cured or prevented by makeshifts or by local measures and efforts, although community interest naturally is vital in dealing with a problem that comes home to every community.

makeshiftadj詞源 1/ˈmeɪkˌʃɪft/

  • 1

    Made to work or suffice; improvised; substituted.

    • They used the ledge and a few branches for a makeshift shelter.
    • Hodgson was able to introduce Arsenal teenager Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain for his debut late on as this makeshift England line-up closed out a victory that was solid for the most part without ever threatening to be spectacular.

makeshiftnoun詞源 2

  • 1

    obsoleteA rogue; a shifty person.

    • Greene the coneycatcher, of this dream the author, / For his dainty devise deserveth the halter. / A rakehell, a makeshift, a scribbling fool; / A famous bayard in city and school: / Now sick as a dog, and ever brain-sick, / Where such a raving and desperate Dick?

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