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動詞

extemporize (三人称単数 現在形 extemporizes, 現在分詞 extemporizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 extemporized)

1. (intransitive) To perform or speak without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.
   • 1881, George MacDonald, chapter 35, in Mary Marston:

     "Will you please tell me whose music you have been playing?" . . .

     "It's nobody's, miss."

     "Do you mean you have been extemporizing all this time?"

   • 2009 March 5, Peter Baker, "The (very) scripted president," New York Times (retrieved 8 Nov 2011):

     But while some of his predecessors liked to extemporize, Obama prefers the message to be just so.

2. (transitive) To adapt, improvise, or devise action or speech in an impromptu or spontaneous manner.
   • 1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 10, in The Marble Faun:

     As the music came fresher on their ears, they danced to its cadence, extemporizing new steps and attitudes.

   • 1879, Samuel Butler, chapter 5, in Evolution, Old & New:

     The small jelly-speck, which we call the amoeba, has no organs save what it can extemporize as occasion arises.

   • 1906, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts, Part Second, Act Third:

     The wine runs into pitchers, washing-basins, shards, chamber- vessels, and other extemporized receptacles.

   • 2003 Aug. 25, Emily Eakin, "How King Shaped The Dream," New York Times (retrieved 8 Nov 2011):

     His most famous words — "I have a dream" — were extemporized.

同意語

• (自動詞): improvise, think on one's feet
• (他動詞): devise, improvise

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