fiddled

英 [ˈfɪdld]

美 [ˈfɪdld]

v.  (尤指厌烦或紧张地)不断摸弄，不停摆弄; 篡改; 伪造; 对…做手脚; 拉小提琴
fiddle的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 摆弄;拨弄
  If youfiddle withan object, you keep moving it or touching it with your fingers.
  1. Harriet fiddled with a pen on the desk.
     哈丽雅特摆弄着桌上的钢笔。
• VERB 作小改动;略微变动;稍稍修改
  If youfiddle withsomething, you change it in minor ways.
  1. She told Whistler that his portrait of her was finished and to stop fiddling with it.
     她告诉惠斯勒他给她画的肖像已经完成，不要再改了。
• VERB 调校;调整
  If youfiddle witha machine, you adjust it.
  1. He turned on the radio and fiddled with the knob until he got a talk show.
     他打开收音机，拨动旋钮，直至调到一个脱口秀节目。
• VERB 篡改，伪造(财务记录)
  If someonefiddlesfinancial documents, they alter them dishonestly so that they get money for themselves.
  1. He's been fiddling the books...
     他一直在伪造账目。
  2. Stop fiddling your expenses account.
     不要再在开支账户上动手脚了。
• N-COUNT 欺诈;诈骗
  Afiddleis a dishonest action or scheme in which someone gets money for themselves.
  1. Police investigating a £10 million car insurance fiddle arrested 16 people yesterday.
     调查涉及 1,000 万英镑的汽车保险诈骗案的警察昨天逮捕了 16 人。
  2. ...legitimate businesses that act as covers for tax fiddles.
     为骗税打掩护的合法企业
• N-SING 麻烦之事;繁琐之事
  If something isa fiddle, it is quite difficult to do because it involves small or complicated objects.
  1. I found out how to fix the tray on — a bit of a fiddle.
     我知道该怎么把这盘子固定住了——有点麻烦。
• N-VAR (尤指用于演奏民间音乐的)小提琴
  Some people call violinsfiddles, especially when they are used to play folk music.
  1. Hardy as a young man played the fiddle at local dances.
     哈迪年轻时在当地舞会上演奏小提琴。
• PHRASE 非常健康;充满活力
  Someone who is asfit as a fiddleis very healthy and full of energy.
  1. I'm as fit as a fiddle — with energy to spare.
     我非常健康——精力充沛。
• 干骗钱的勾当;诈骗
  If someone ison the fiddle, they get money by doing illegal or dishonest things.
• 大难临头仍歌舞升平;见危难而若无其事
  If you say that someoneis fiddling whileRomeburns, you mean that they are not dealing with a difficult or dangerous situation but instead are doing useless things or pretending that nothing is wrong.
• PHRASE 处于次要地位;当副手;唱配角
  If youplay second fiddleto someone, your position is less important than theirs in something that you are doing together.
  1. She hated the thought of playing second fiddle to Rose.
     想到要身居罗斯之下她就很郁闷。
• PHRASAL VERB 摆弄，拨弄(使运转)
  If youfiddle aroundorfiddle aboutwith a machine, you do things to it to try and make it work.
  1. Two of them got out to fiddle around with the engine.
     其中两人下车鼓捣引擎。
• PHRASAL VERB 虚度光阴;无所事事;瞎混
  If someonefiddles aroundorfiddles about, they waste time doing unimportant things instead of dealing with important problems.
  1. He wants lawmakers to basically stop fiddling around as the country moves closer to breaking up...
     国家在日益走向分裂，他希望立法者们再不要无所事事了。
  2. He wastes time fiddling about with minor matters.
     他把时间都浪费在鸡毛蒜皮的小事上。
• PHRASAL VERB 对…作无谓的修改
  If you say that someone isfiddling around withorfiddling about withsomething, you mean that they are changing it in a way that you disapprove of.
  1. Right now in Congress, they're fiddling around with the budget and so on...
     此时在国会，他们正就预算案等等瞎折腾。
  2. One always wonders when a man starts fiddling about with his Will.
     一个人开始把遗嘱改来改去时总让人感到诧异。

双语例句

• Father was angry because Tom fiddled away the whole day.
  父亲很生气，因为汤姆浪费了整整一天的时间。
• He fiddled away the whole day doing nothing.
  他虚度了一整天，什么事也没做。
• And over the 10 months that Publicis and Omnicom fiddled around trying to close the deal, WPP shares outperformed them both.
  而且在阳狮和宏盟折腾着试图完成这笔交易的10个月里，WPP的股价跑赢了它们。
• Convinced that he was "a messianic figure of great but secret importance," he frantically scanned the New York Times for encoded messages from aliens, and fiddled with radio dials to pick up signals from space.
  他相信自己是“一个救世主般的重要人物，伟大而又神秘，”他疯狂地浏览《纽约时报》企图寻得编码过的外星信息，拨弄着收音机的调谐度盘试图接收太空信号。
• At dinner I fiddled with my steak and veggies.
  晚饭时我胡乱拨弄着我的牛排和蔬菜。
• John, greatly embarrassed, fiddled with his cap.
  约翰觉得很尴尬，用手抚弄着自己的帽子。
• As she talked, she fiddled with the buttons on her sweater.
  她一边说话，一边捏弄着毛衣上的纽扣。
• Ridley picked up a pencil and fiddled with it.
  里德利拿起一支铅笔，不停地在手里摆弄着。
• He fiddled away the whole afternoon.
  他浪费了整整一个下午。
• Other schools have fiddled with their recruitment materials, redesigning catalogs and revamping direct-mail campaigns.
  其他学校则修改他们的招生材料，重新设计招生目录和改变给考生直接寄信的办法。