tinkers是什么意思？

tinkers

• n. 笨拙的工人( tinker的名词复数 )，（补壶、锅等流动的）补锅工人，能做各种小修小补的人，<美>小鲭鱼；
• v. 做焊锅匠( tinker的第三人称单数 )，焊补，胡乱修补，笨手笨脚地做某事；

例句

• If ifs and ans were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers. 如果[假使]和[假若]能变成深锅和浅锅, 则补锅匠儿无事做.
• He tinkers with old radios a hobby. 他把修理旧收音机当成嗜好.
• Thin metal tins think tinkers kings. 薄薄的金属罐把补锅匠当成国王.

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 .