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

• He likes tinkering with computers.
  他爱乱改进计算机。
• 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。
• But reform proposals from both Washington and Brussels amount to little more than tinkering.
  但是，华盛顿和布鲁塞尔给出的改革方案都只是些小修小补。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Eaton says he spent years as part of the team tinkering with a grilled alternative, and the rollout follows KFC's longest market test ever.
  Eaton说自己和团队花了数年尝试改进一种烧烤替代品，这次的推出之前，肯德基公司进行了公司有史以来最久的市场测验。