patch-up

基本解釋

Patch-up: Assembling negatives to form a composite image. Synonym with Film make-up.
拼大版：把多張菲林負片或正片組合為一的情況。
Howery, an American law firm, poured resources into Brussels only to have its business hit a nasty patch and go belly-up.
一家美國律所，投放大量資源到布魯塞爾開設分所，結果做得一塌糊涂之后關門了事。
Gold nanorods - contained in the patch - heat up when near-infrared radiation is applied to the local area and destroys the tumor.
貼片中包含的金納米棒附著到某局部區(qū)域時，可以產(chǎn)生近紅外線使其發(fā)熱，并摧毀腫瘤。

But the follow-up patch it created for the browser just days later has been implemented so seamlessly, most users will never know what happened.
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The initial 3.0 release required a myPlex account and didn't include a remote control widget, and those have only just been fixed with a quick follow-up patch.
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With outfits like Patch, AOL is doing a good job rolling up small-scale news reporting across the country.
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If you patch up an argument or relationship, you try to be friendly again and not to argue anymore.
If you patch up something that is damaged, you repair it or patch it.
If doctors patch someone up or patch their wounds up, they treat their injuries.