| 词汇 | tinker |
| 释义 | tinker verb[ Iusually+ adv/prep ] uk /ˈtɪŋ.kər/ us /ˈtɪŋ.kɚ/ to make small changes to something, especially in an attempt to repair or improve it: 修补；改进；摆弄 He spends every weekend tinkering (around)with his car.他每个周末都在摆弄他的汽车。 I wish the government would stop tinkering with the health service.我希望政府不要再在公共医疗卫生服务上折腾了。 Compare fiddleverb(MOVE ABOUT) Correcting and mending calibration clean (someone/something) up correction fiddle (around) with something fine-tune mess reconstruct reconstruction recover rectifiable rectification refine remedy revised scratch set/put the record straightidiom smooth something away smoothen sort sort something out tinker noun uk /ˈtɪŋ.kər/ us /ˈtɪŋ.kɚ/ tinkernoun (TRAVELLER)[ C ] especially in the past, a person who travelled from place to place, repairing pans or other metal containers（尤指过去游走四方的）补锅匠 Travellers & visitors blow-in caravan carpool daily passenger day-tripper emmet expedition grief tourist houseguest itinerant passenger roamer rover sightseer stayer super-commuter swagman tripper vacationer voyager tinkernoun (CHILD)[ C ]UKold-fashionedinformal a child who behaves badly: 小淘气 [ as form of address ]You tinker, Nicky, you shouldn't have done that.尼基，你这个小淘气，你不该那么做。 Don't be such a tinker.别这么淘气。 a child childWhen I was a child the summers seemed to go on for ever. boyThere's a new boy in my class. girlThe girl's name is Sally. kidI'm off to pick up the kids from school. kiddieI saw her with a little kiddie in a pushchair. little oneThe little ones must be hungry by now. Children & babies ankle-biter arrival babe babe in arms baby children comfort blanket crawler designer baby devil munchkin neonate new addition nipper only child tantrum teethe tiddler tike toddler tinkernoun (CHANGES)[ S ]UK the activity of making small changes to something: （对…作的）修补，改进 I'll just have a tinker with the TV and see if I can get it to work.我就摆弄一下电视，看能不能修好。 Correcting and mending calibration clean (someone/something) up correction fiddle (around) with something fine-tune mess reconstruct reconstruction recover rectifiable rectification refine remedy revised scratch set/put the record straightidiom smooth something away smoothen sort sort something out Idiomnot give a tinker's cuss tinker | American Dictionarytinker verb[ Ialways+ adv/prep ] us/ˈtɪŋ·kər/ to make small changes in something, because you hope to improve or fix it: Chuck tinkers with the car’s engine all the time. Examples of tinkertinker To introduce controlled dissonances was to tinker with the rational attunement between body, soul and world. Predictably, legislators confronted by 'unanticipated' and 'excessive' cost pressures would be tempted to tinker with program operations and rules. We tinker with our procedures and premises, our institutions and practices. Both tinker and soldier are innocent gulls, deceived but not deceiving. Evolution cannot invent something quite new but can only tinker with what is already there. Branding designers may tinker with its details - a differently shaped canopy fascia here, a new shop front there - but the basic concept remains the same. Overseas, administrations tended to waver between a general policy of benign neglect and attempts to tinker more directly with the fringes of immense problems of morbidity. I would point out here that we should not tinker with the timetable; that would be a futile exercise. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The common position forms a balanced text which we should not tinker with too much. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We cannot wait until it is too late and then tinker about with the symptoms. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English He said that the others did not matter a tinker's cuss. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not concerned one tinker's toss of a button whether a shipowner makes money or loses it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the case of single men everybody seems inclined not to care a tinker's curse what happens to him simply because he is single. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At all events, no one will care a "tinker's cuss" about that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The rest do not matter a tinker's cuss. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of tinker These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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