tinkering是什么意思？

tinkering

英['tɪŋkərɪŋ] 美['tɪŋkərɪŋ]

• v. 做焊锅匠( tinker的现在分词 )，焊补，胡乱修补，笨手笨脚地做某事；

例句

• They haven’t made any real changes to the system — they’ve just been tinkering around a bit. 他们对系统没有做出任何真正的改进—只不过是一点修修补补。
• He’s outside tinkering around with his bike. 他在外面捣鼓他的自行车。
• She spent the afernoon tinkering about in the garden shed. 她在花园的小棚屋里修修补补了一个下午。
• Both parties are disstisfied with " piecemeal tinkering " and " muddling through ". 二者都不满足于 “ 渐进修补 ” 和 “ 摸索前进 ”.
• He's outside tinkering around with his bike. 他在外面捣鼓他的自行车.
• No amount of tinkering is going to improve matters. 任何小修小补都是于事无补的。
• But following the ruckus over the AEP, several states are tinkering with the course material. 但是随着AEP引发诸多争议, 数个邦都在对教材乱改一气.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  小修;小补;摆弄
  If you tinker with something, you make some small changes to it, in an attempt to improve it or repair it.
  例句
  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。 They tinkered with the engine… 他们修了修发动机。
• N-COUNT
  (旧时的)补锅匠，修理匠
  In former times, a tinker was a person who did not have a fixed home, but travelled from place to place mending metal pots and doing other small repair jobs.
• N-COUNT
  (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 a tinker .