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　

机械

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.
  1. 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。
  2. They tinkered with the engine…
     他们修了修发动机。
  3. 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。
• (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

• Tinkering with existing institutions cannot provide the independence we need.
  对现有机构进行修修补补，无法提供我们需要的独立性。
• 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。
• After some tinkering around, I introduced the concept of ports ( this is actually a well-known concept in component technology and also UML, but was relatively new to my customer).
  经过几番修改，我引入了端口（Port）的概念（实际上在组件技术以及UML中，这是一个众所周知的概念，但是相对于我的客户而言，却是一个新名词）。
• The most important factor I like tinkering with machines.
  最重要因素就我非常喜欢摆弄机械。
• 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。
• No wonder the lights don't work-Matt's been tinkering with the switches.
  难怪灯都不亮了，是马特一直在瞎摆弄开关。
• But such tinkering, effective though it sometimes is, may no longer be enough.
  不过，这样的微调举措尽管有时也是有效的，但可能再也不够了。
• He spends every weekend tinkering with his car.
  他把每个周末都花在修理他的汽车上。
• 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。
• American global supremacy is not about to be challenged by China's tinkering with aircraft-carriers.
  美国在全球的霸权无疑将受到中国的修葺中的航母的挑战。