0 cloth made by sewing together a lot of smaller pieces of cloth with different patterns and colours, or the activity of doing this -- 拼布工艺（品）
A bedstead, which seemed half falling down, was furnished with very ragged printed cotton furniture, a patchwork quilt, and sheets of the coarsest hemp.
The resulting patchwork approach achieves optimization at the local level, but ignores benefits gained by taking a systemlevel view.
Imagine that a government is gradually introducing a patchwork of tax credits.
On the other hand, a brief examination of the licensing policies suggests a patchwork of strategies offering customers little logic or coherence.
The range of reaction here is enormous, and represents as much a patchwork quilt of regional diversity as most of the other variables.
Thus planning became a" political patchwork based on the" art of the possible" ".
The text of the chant is a patchwork.
Political instability, and even civil war, do not interfere with such forms of sovereignty, partly due to the patchwork of private security offered to enclaves.
