tinkers

英 [ˈtɪŋkəz]

美 [ˈtɪŋkərz]

n.  (旧时走街串巷的)小炉匠，补锅匠，白铁匠
v.  (尤指不起作用地)小修补，小修理
tinker的第三人称单数和复数

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

• However, since the reform and opening up was launched in1978, people have turned to electric cookers and pressure cookers, and pan tinkers are no longer part of their daily lives.
  但是，自1978年改革开放以来，人民转而使用电饭锅，高压锅，补锅匠不再是他们日常生活所需的部分了。
• And Mr Gates's review only tinkers with America's military structure.
  而盖茨先生的此份报告不过是对美国的军事结构进行了一些拙劣的修补。
• This is likely to be a budget that tinkers around the edges.
  这个预算方案可能只起到小修小补的作用。
• Thin metal tins think tinkers kings.
  薄薄的金属罐把补锅匠当成国王。
• Goblin tinkers thus hamstrung one of their creations just long enough for a survivor to spread the word.
  地精修补匠们因为使得他们作品中的一个瘫痪太长的时间，而使一名幸存者宣扬到世界各地。
• The drug enters rivers from the sewer system and tinkers with the brain chemistry of fish, the researchers claimed.
  研究人员表示，这些药物通过下水道被排入河流，然后改变了鱼类大脑的生化行为。
• They've got the lot: tinkers, tailors.
  他们有焊锅匠、裁缝。