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.)).
雙語例句
1. Jerry is an amateur who dances because he feels like it.
杰里是個業(yè)余跳舞愛好者，他跳舞是因為自己喜歡。
來自柯林斯例句
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。
來自金山詞霸 每日一句
3. "Get another one, Fatty," said Jerry.
“再拿一個，胖子。”杰里說。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Software Development Magazine recently interviewed Jerry. Here are some of his answers.
軟件研發(fā)雜志最近采訪了Jerry. 以下是部分訪談錄.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
5. F 1 : my name is JERRY , what's the matter , please, my little friend?