tinkering
英 [ˈtɪŋkərɪŋ]
美 [ˈtɪŋkərɪŋ]
v. (尤指不起作用地)小修补,小修理
tinker的现在分词
现在分词:tinkering 复数:tinkerings
BNC.32797 / COCA.25110
柯林斯词典
- VERB 小修;小补;摆弄
If youtinker withsomething, you make some small changes to it, in an attempt to improve it or repair it.- Instead of the Government admitting its error, it just tinkered with the problem...
政府没有承认错误,只是敷衍了事地处理问题。 - They tinkered with the engine…
他们修了修发动机。 - It is not enough to tinker at the edges; our objective must be to reconstruct the entire system.
只在外缘做一些小修小补是不够的,我们的目标必须是重建整个系统。
- Instead of the Government admitting its error, it just tinkered with the problem...
- (旧时的)补锅匠,修理匠
In former times, atinkerwas a person who did not have a fixed home, but travelled from place to place mending metal pots and doing other small repair jobs. - (尤指爱尔兰裔的)流浪者,吉卜赛人
Some people refer to any traveller or gipsy, especially one who is Irish, as atinker.
双语例句
- I wish the government would stop tinkering with the health service.
我希望政府不要再瞎调整社会保健服务了。 - Hocicaday, formerly a physicist, began tinkering with a miniature fuel cell in his basement years ago.
霍克蒂原来是一位物理学者,若干年前就开始在自家的地下室里摆弄微型燃料电池了。 - He was tinkering about with the machinery, trying to get the motor to go.
他一直在修理这台机械,试图让发动机运转。 - Ford's year of curiosity and tinkering paid off.
多年后,福特的好奇心和他的动手能力使他得到了回报。 - Basically. I got a little tinkering I've still got to do.
基本上来说,有些小地方还得修修补补,还得做些工作。 - The most important factor I like tinkering with machines.
最重要因素就我非常喜欢摆弄机械。 - Tinkering is not enough.
光靠修修补补是不够的。 - He likes tinkering with computers.
他爱乱改进计算机。 - Or in tinkering with things.
或对任何事情进行修补。 - He spends every weekend tinkering with his car.
他把每个周末都花在修理他的汽车上。