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
- Stop tinkering with my television and take it to the repair shop.
你不要再瞎摆弄我的电视机了，把它送到修理店去吧。 - 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。 - A bit of tinkering to make it function more smoothly is only to be expected.
为了让它运转得更顺畅，进行一些修补是再正常不过的了。 - Friends remember him as an above-average science student who enjoyed pickup soccer games and tinkering with a motorcycle.
朋友们还记得他是一位成绩不错的理科生，喜欢足球和摆弄摩托车。 - A few hours of tinkering is all that's needed to realize a10-to200-percent gain.
实现10%到200%的性能提升只需几个小时的优化和修补。 - He likes tinkering with computers.
他爱乱改进计算机。 - 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。 - This is the exact moment that I started creating something called Tinkering School.
就是在那个时候我开办了一个叫做修补学校的项目。 - 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。 - I'm addicted to fantasy football. I can't stop tinkering with my team.
我沉迷于足球，没有办法不去调动我的队伍。