fiddling

英 [ˈfɪdlɪŋ]

美 [ˈfɪdlɪŋ]

adj.  琐碎的; 繁琐的
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的现在分词

现在分词：fiddling　

TEM8

BNC.33031 / COCA.31166

牛津词典

adj.

• 琐碎的；繁琐的
  small, unimportant and often annoying

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 诈骗;伪造账目
  Fiddlingis the practice of getting money dishonestly by altering financial documents.
  1. Salomon's fiddling is likely to bring big trouble for the firm.
     萨洛蒙伪造账目可能会给公司带来大麻烦。
• (尤指民乐的)小提琴演奏
  Violin playing, especially in folk music, is sometimes referred to asfiddling.
• ADJ-GRADED 麻烦的;繁琐的
  You can describe something asfiddlingif it is small, unimportant, or difficult to do.
  1. ...the daunting amount of fiddling technical detail.
     令人生畏的大量繁琐的技术细节

英英释义

adj

• (informal) small and of little importance
  1. a fiddling sum of money
  2. a footling gesture
  3. our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
  4. a little (or small) matter
  5. a dispute over niggling details
  6. limited to petty enterprises
  7. piffling efforts
  8. giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
  Synonym:footlinglilliputianlittlenigglingpiddlingpifflingpettypicayunetrivial

双语例句

• He sat nervously fiddling with his spectacles.
  他坐在那里神经质地不断摆弄自己的眼镜。
• An old man was fiddling away at the street corner. Keep straight along this path for three blocks.
  有个老头一直在街角拉小提琴。沿这条小路一直走三个街区。
• If yours is clear and concise, stop fiddling.
  如果你的简历简洁明了、停止花哨。
• I spent about two hours just fiddling about.
  我闲荡了约有两个钟头。
• I gave up fiddling to focus on my race.
  我放弃我的手脚集中竞赛。
• Iran says it is fiddling with uranium and plutonium to produce more electricity.
  伊朗轻描淡写的说利用铀和钚可以更多发电。
• I can't seem to stop fiddling with it and trying out new things.
  我似乎无法阻挡自己四处修改并尝试各种新事物。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。