makeshift的词源

英文词源

makeshift

makeshift: see shift

makeshift

also make-shift, 1560s, as a noun, "shifty person, rogue," from make (v.) + shift (v.). Adjectival sense of "substitute" is first recorded 1680s. Compare make-sport "a laughing stock" (1610s).

中文词源

makeshift：权宜

比喻用法。

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