jerry-built

英 ['d?eribilt] 美

jerry-built 粗制濫造的，豆腐渣的

詞源不詳。可能來自某個做豆腐渣工程的Jerry.一種說法認為來自19世紀某利物浦建筑商Jerry,因做豆腐渣建筑而為人所知。

jerry-built: jerry-built: [19] In the absence of any watertight evidence, many theories have been put forward to account for this adjective (first recorded in 1869). One (touted in newspaper correspondence as early as 1884) holds that it immortalizes the incompetence of a firm of Liverpool builders named Jerry, but no proof of that has ever been found. Another would link it, ingeniously, with the walls of Jericho, which fell down as soon as Joshua blew his trumpet.
jerry-built (adj.): 1869, in which jerry has a sense of "bad, defective," probably a pejorative use of the male nickname Jerry (a popular form of Jeremy; compare Jerry-sneak, mid-19c., "sneaking fellow, a hen-pecked husband" [OED]). Or from or influenced by nautical slang jury "temporary," which came to be used of all sorts of makeshift and inferior objects (see jury (adj.)).

1. Jerry is an amateur who dances because he feels like it.: 杰里是個業余跳舞愛好者，他跳舞是因為自己喜歡。

2. Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.--Jerry Rice: 今天我做了別人不愿做的事，明天我就能做到別人所不能做的事。

4. Software Development Magazine recently interviewed Jerry. Here are some of his answers.: 軟件研發雜志最近采訪了Jerry. 以下是部分訪談錄.

5. F 1 : my name is JERRY , what's the matter , please, my little friend?: 外國游客 1: 我叫jerry, 請問小朋友有什么事情嗎 ?