adapt oneself to available facilities; do things simply and thriftily; improvise with crude and simple methods (/tools); make do with whatever is available; makeshift;make the best of existing facilities
❍ 镇上的店铺往往～，不中她的意，便托人到城里去带；……(叶圣陶《倪焕之》259) She was never satisfied with the rough-and-ready shops in the town and so she got people to bring back what she needed when they went to the city; …
因陋就简
make do with whatever is available;do things as simply and thriftly as possible
因陋就简yīn lòu jiù jiǎn
因：将就；陋：简陋。原指听凭简陋也不去改进；现多指利用原有的简陋条件，争取节约办事。do things simply and thriftily, make the best of existing facilities, adapt oneself to the available conditions