jerrybuild

verb

(transitive) To assemble a project in a hasty, sloppy manner, especially using cheap, inferior or improvised materials. / To assemble a structure in such an unsafe manner that it is doomed to collapse.

He decided to jerrybuild the bookshelf instead of buying a new one.

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意味（1）

(transitive) To assemble a project in a hasty, sloppy manner, especially using cheap, inferior or improvised materials.

It was a queer-looking hovel, built of galvanised iron and kerosene-cans and bark and saplings and bamboo, according to no definite plan, and obviously, to knowing eyes, by one of those masters of the craft of jerry-building […]

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意味（2）

To assemble a structure in such an unsafe manner that it is doomed to collapse.

意味（3）

To repair a structure in a sloppy or unsafe manner.

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