improvise
verb[IorT]
uk/ˈɪm.prə.vaɪz/us/ˈɪm.prə.vaɪz/toinventor make something, such as aspeechor adevice, at thetimewhen it isneededwithout already havingplannedit:
临时做;即兴做I hadn'tpreparedaspeechso Isuddenlyhad to improvise.我没有准备演讲,所以突然之间我只得即兴讲几句。
We improvised amattressfromapileofblankets.为了能有地方睡觉,我们临时用一摞毯子作床垫。
Whenactorsormusiciansimprovise, theyperformwithoutpreparedspeechormusic, making up theplay,music, etc. as theyperformit:
(演员)即兴表演;(音乐家)即兴创作Duringcertainscenesof theplaythere isn't anyscriptand theactorsjust improvise (thedialogue).这出戏有几场没有剧本,演员们就即兴表演(对白)。
Inventing, designing and innovation
- absorptive capacity
- architect
- artificer
- bionics
- blueprint
- customized
- design
- designer
- devise
- dreamsomethingup
- lead time
- modularization
- nanotechnology
- non-imitative
- operational research
- technologist
- technology
- themed
- think outside the boxidiom
- thinksomethingup
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