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

• 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。
• 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。
• He spends every weekend tinkering with his car.
  他把每个周末都花在修理他的汽车上。
• Tinkering is not enough.
  光靠修修补补是不够的。
• The time has come to say enough to tinkering with reforms.
  现在是时候指出，小修小补的改革应该停止了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He spends hours tinkering around with car engines.
  他花了几个小时修理汽车发动机。
• He was tinkering about with the machinery, trying to get the motor to go.
  他一直在修理这台机械，试图让发动机运转。