| 词汇 | tinkering |
| 释义 | tinkering present participle oftinker 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 revise scratch set/put the record straightidiom smooth something away smoothen sort sort something out Examples of tinkeringtinkering In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Unless its contingent and intersubjective aspects are recognized, it is unlikely to produce good intelligence, regardless of its susceptibility to political tinkering. Here, legislators are likely to anticipate its behaviour and the degree of ex post tinkering that a specific policy could be subject to. The democratic cause advances through motivated and cumulative tinkering with the arrangements underlying such schemes. Are they at the level of invention or of 'tinkering'? If electoral tinkering could not be performed by means of emergency powers and federal intervention, an absolute majority of electoral votes was not likely. Some regimes, of course, prove more successful at this task than others through constitutional and legislative tinkering, judicial manipulation, and tolerating legislative bodies and trials. All parties had access to this research, and minor tinkering has taken place with phraseology in the new edition. The answer is negotiable; but must be stated and addressed if tinkering is to amount to science. Drury demonstrates that humans are inexorably in thrall to global change, for all our uncomprehending tinkering. In turn, this case study shows that the political tinkering behind fiscal decentralisation policies can be grasped more precisely when we examine the distribution of seemingly small-scale grants. Even when a regulation fails to protect its protected classes, it may not warrant redesign, at least not before exhausting all possibilities of incremental reform and modest tinkering. A choice between tinkering at the edges or taking forceful measures. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English It is quite evident that the tinkering which is going to be done to-day is going to continue. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For this reason, it would be wrong for us to do any tinkering. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There must be no tinkering, but a reduction next year of expenditure to the tune of at least £500 million. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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