The technicians had no choice but to jury-rig more and more kludges onto the main reaction chamber to compensate.
技术人员别无选择,只能临时在主反应室上安装越来越多的组件以进行补偿。
三体 I
And now those kludges required their own kludges, a state of affairs that exhausted the project staff.
而现在这些问题需要他们自己的问题,这种情况使项目人员筋疲力尽。
英语百科
Kludge
A kludge (or kluge) (/klʌdʒ/, /kluːʒ/, /kluːdʒ/) is a workaround or quick-and-dirty solution that is clumsy, inelegant, inefficient, difficult to extend and hard to maintain. This term is used in diverse fields such as computer science, aerospace engineering, internet slang, evolutionary neuroscience, and government.
a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together)