improvise

英 ['ɪmprəvaɪz] 美 ['ɪmprəvaɪz]

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※ 提供单词"improvise"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

improvise 临时做，即兴

im-,不，非，-provise,准备，词源同provide.即没准备，临时做的，即兴准备。

improvise: improvise: [19] Etymologically, if you improvise something, it is because it has not been ‘provided’ for in advance. The word comes via French improviser from the Italian adjective improvviso ‘extempore’, a descendant of Latin imprōvīsus ‘unforeseen’. This in turn was formed from the negative prefix in- and the past participle of prōvīdere ‘foresee’ (source of English provide).

The earliest recorded use of the verb in English is by Benjamin Disraeli in Vivian Grey 1826: ‘He possessed also the singular faculty of being able to improvise quotations’. (The closely related improvident ‘not providing for the future’ [16] preserves even more closely the sense of its Latin original.)
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improvise (v.): 1826, back-formation from improvisation, or else from French improviser (17c.), from Italian improvisare "to sing or speak extempore," from improviso, from Latin improvisus "unforeseen, unexpected" (see improvisation). Or possibly a back-formation from improvisation. Related: Improvised; improvising.

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2. Sometimes I improvise and change the words because I forget them.: 有时，我临场发挥改了词，因为我把原来的词给忘了。

4. There isn't much equipment. We're going to have to improvise.: 设备不多，我们只能将就着用。