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| Processed by: | richwarm (2022-12-12 23:18:33 GMT) |
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<< review queue entry 70409 - submitted by 'tubbums32' >> New word not in the system; obtained via Youtube CC --------------------------------- Editor: "scrape together" means "to manage with great difficulty to collect enough of something". 东拼西凑, on the other hand, seems to be not so much about the *difficulty* of the collecting process than it is about the *disparateness* of the items collected. Ex: 一台冷氣機已經使用超過20年，地板剝落情形嚴重，桌椅東拼西湊， There is an air-conditioner that has been in use for more than 20 years, the floor surface is peeling, all sorts of mismatched desks and chairs are thrown in together, 至於詩會所做的擊缽詩，因為題目有限定，大家又常帶著參考書東拼西湊，「作成的詩有時長得像兄弟同款模樣，差不多是同一個聲音，」有人批評說。 As for the poetry competitions these societies sponsor, because the topics are limited and everyone brings in reference books from which they borrow extensively, critics have been known to carp that "the poems sometimes end up sounding all alike." 有一家公司，一年半以前就開始紙上畫餅，計劃未來可能要增加甲產品的產量，因此要到乙國去買丙種機組，用的是丁種機型；為了這趟採購，有多少人員要出國，出國幾天……。東拼西湊、鉅細靡遺一大套，給大大小小的主管過目後，再送到公開市場審議會上，由一批對公司並不了解的人東刪西改、順帶讓所有競爭同業看穿了你的囊中策略。 Let's take a hypothetical company. A year-and-a-half ago it began on-paper planning to increase production of Product A. To do this it must go to Country B to buy the machinery, which must be of Type C. The purchase will require that a number of people go abroad for several days. Once the plan is completed in every detail large and small, it is run past several layers of managers. Then it is submitted to the Legislative Yuan's open-market review committee. There, people who know nothing about this line of business get to chop up and alter the plan at will. And through the whole process the firm's competitors can clearly see the company's strategy. 要當心的是，短視心態並不是前人的專利，而現在的「被害者」也可能搖身變成「加害人」。只要檢視眼前東拼西湊、削足適履的各式Ｙ２Ｋ解決方案，就知道日後的資訊人還有得苦頭吃呢。 But be careful! Our predecessors are not the only ones who will ever deserve criticism for lack of foresight. We may now be suffering the consequences of their mistakes, but we could well end up victimizing future generations with mistakes of our own. Most of the Y2K solutions being implemented today are nothing but stopgap measures designed to postpone the day of reckoning for a few years. Programmers of the 21st century will continue to be plagued by descendants of the millennium bug. 李行的父親李玉階當時是十分知名的自立晚報發行人，為了實現愛子的願望，東拼西湊了一些資本，組成自立電影公司， Lee Hsing's father Li Yu-chieh, then quite renowned as the publisher of the Independence Evening Post, wanted to help his son realize his ambitions, and pieced together the funds for him to start his own film company. 雖然一般信眾初入門時不會在乎什麼信仰理論基礎，也可能搞不清其中的矛盾附會之處，加上新興宗教大多有「混合主義」傾向，東拼西湊而理論駁雜，要釐清不容易。 Few believers are much concerned with doctrine when they first enter a religion, and can't see whether or not there are any contradictions in it; their difficulty is further increased by the mix of beliefs that characterize most new religions. 「當時我們為了應付不斷攀高的系統負荷，只好一天到晚蒐集系上報廢的設備，然後東拼西湊組裝成堪用的硬體。」 "To keep up with all the demands on the system, we had to collect all the discarded equipment we could from the department," says Chien. "We managed to put together a useable system." |
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# 東拼西湊 东拼西凑 [dong1 pin1 xi1 cou4] /To scrape together (funds, etc.)/ + 東拼西湊 东拼西凑 [dong1 pin1 xi1 cou4] /(idiom) to assemble from bits and pieces/ |