tailor-made 
a. 裁缝做的, 特制的
tailor-made[ noun ]- custom-made clothing
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[ adj ]- (of clothing) custom-made
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Tailor-made \Tai"lor-made`\, a.
1. Made by a tailor or according to a tailor's fashion; --
said specif. of women's garments made with certain
closeness of fit, simplicity of ornament, etc.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. made or as if made specifically for the particular purpose
at hand; -- used metaphorically.
[PJC]
- But he said the turn of world events created an opportunity tailor-made for the Democratic Party.
- It is this trend which explains the popularity of tailor-made or 'company specific' programmes at the expense of 'open programmes' (ie open to all-comers).
- It's clear, though, that some parts of the program are tailor-made for Israel.
- He is also familiar with the Middle East, where new systems have been tailor-made in technologically virgin territory.
- If his customer becomes insolvent before his tailor-made goods can be shipped, he can claim on his policy.
- Basically, private banking offers tailor-made financial management for the very wealthy.
- Here are New York Pride's "Twelve Commandments of Courtesy" _ tailor-made to a city of cabs, subways and crowded sidewalks.
- A history of fragmentation seems to have given the region's businessmen an expertise in niche markets. For example, Europe's computer services industry performs well in designing 'bespoke' software - tailor-made solutions for individual companies.
- "And since I'm born in Czechoslovakia, speak a lot of European languages and everyone knows I'm more patriotic than the natives of this country, I'm virtually tailor-made for the job," he said.
- Almost 60 per cent of last year's total income of FF234m (Pounds 24m) came from executive courses. Public programmes account for just over half of all participants: the rest attend courses tailor-made for particular companies or consortia of companies.
- The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was tailor-made exactly to fit such a policy decision.
- He is also impressed by employees' tailor-made career plans.
- Party pros remade his image, junking glasses and rumpled clothes for contact lenses and tailor-made suits.
- Rose Long seems tailor-made for the government's job-training program.
- One new company is Marlborough Stirling, in Cheltenham, set up in 1988 to sell tailor-made software and business solutions for the sector.
- Here it is merely diffused. Part of the trouble is the character of Pericles himself, at first glance tailor-made for the Green Party candidate that Douglas Hodge is in real life.
- Its gas services division has built up a speciality in designing tailor-made long-term supply contracts for customers using sophisticated hedging and financing techniques.
- The Ollie North Show was tailor-made for television, and the networks turned it into a sporting event with breathless reports of knockout punches, slam-dunks and home runs.
- Most of their recently announced projects have been in the pipeline for the past two to four years. Even more significantly, almost all were tailor-made to suit India's five-year plans. The Du Pont polyester base film project is a classic example.
- Dispelling Boredom: Shopping is tailor-made for a video generation that thrives on bright colors and visual distractions.
- His drink of choice is a vodka martini, his idea of competitive sports is a good game of horseshoes, his suits are tailor-made.
- The party's current problems are most visible in its inability to score political points with issues that would seem tailor-made for it.
- 'We can offer here the same as Jersey but we can make it far more tailor-made.' Gibraltar sells itself as better equipped to deal with the EC and also as more receptive to the medium net worth individual.
- The approach uses three doses of tailor-made, laboratory-grown monoclonal antibodies before the transplant to temporarily "blind" the immune system and keep it from recognizing the new organ as foreign tissue and attacking it.
- The post is tailor-made for doing favors for other senators, the kind of chits that come in handy during a leadership battle.
- The volatility has subsided, but premiums on European currency options are still higher than normal. Second, options can be expensive because they are often tailor-made for a particular customer.
- We want to develop skills that are tailor-made to our own needs.' The NVQ system seeks to establish a nationwide system of competence-based qualifications.
- The summit, an occasion for sounding alarms and setting guidelines rather than detailed horsetrading, might have been tailor-made for them. Indeed, it was tailor-made by one of them, for the summit had been Francois Mitterrand's idea.
- The summit, an occasion for sounding alarms and setting guidelines rather than detailed horsetrading, might have been tailor-made for them. Indeed, it was tailor-made by one of them, for the summit had been Francois Mitterrand's idea.
- Rougham is in the East Anglia region of England, flat farm country juting into the North Sea, its location and terrain tailor-made for air bases designed to hit Germany and occupied Europe.