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tinkered

英 [ˈtɪŋkəd]

美 [ˈtɪŋkərd]

v.  (尤指不起作用地)小修补,小修理
tinker的过去分词和过去式

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.
    1. (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

      • Es ancient paper are double-sided printing machinery, paper thin, should be chosen in the process of repair, toughness good cotton paper tinkered with Japan.
        西文古籍纸张基本上都是双面印刷的机械纸,在修复的过程中要选用薄的、韧性较好的日本棉纸进行修补。
      • Lone inventors have long tinkered in garages.
        长久以来,孤独的发明家都是在车库里搞发明。
      • So they tinkered with the ash and developed a new core material for vacuum insulated panels.
        因此他们对灰烬进行了加工,从而研制出一种新型的真空绝缘板核心材料。
      • Problems can arise when management structures are tinkered with.
        改进管理结构的过程中可能会产生问题。
      • They have tinkered with the geometry of the car's nose.
        他们对车头的外观进行了改进。
      • Chinese doctors have long tinkered with combinations of herbs to cure disease.
        中医一直通过搭配使用各种草药来给人治病。
      • Science has tinkered with similar notions for years.
        科学界多年来也一直在进行相关研究。
      • Again, this is a tool many physicians, including myself, have tinkered with and eventually abandoned.
        这是一个,一再被许多医生,包括我自己,胡乱使用甚至抛弃的一种工具。
      • If you're like most, you've probably tinkered with Twitter for a few weeks, then written it off as a diversion.
        比如你像多数人一样,你可能已经在Twitter上面修修补补了数周,终归不写了之。
      • Weekends, he tinkered in the cellar, turning scraps of plywood into a utility cabinet or fixing a broken toy with spare parts.
        周末,他在地下室里修修补补,把胶合板的边角料做成一个实用的小柜子,或者用一些零件把坏了的玩具修好。