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

• 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。
• American global supremacy is not about to be challenged by China's tinkering with aircraft-carriers.
  美国在全球的霸权无疑将受到中国的修葺中的航母的挑战。
• The most important factor I like tinkering with machines.
  最重要因素就我非常喜欢摆弄机械。
• Friends remember him as an above-average science student who enjoyed pickup soccer games and tinkering with a motorcycle.
  朋友们还记得他是一位成绩不错的理科生，喜欢足球和摆弄摩托车。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 likes tinkering with computers.
  他爱乱改进计算机。
• 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。