tinkered

美 [ˈtɪŋkərd]英 [ˈtɪŋkəd]
  • v.(尤指不起作用地)小修补,小修理
  • tinker的过去分词和过去式
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  • 1
    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.

    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。

  • No amount of tinkering is going to improve matters.

    任何小修小补都是于事无补的。

  • 3
    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.

  • 4
    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 .

  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 have tinkered with the geometry of the car 's nose .

    他们对车头的外观进行了改进。

  3. They tinkered with the engine

    他们修了修发动机。

  4. Problems can arise when management structures are tinkered with .

    改进管理结构的过程中可能会产生问题。

  5. Chinese doctors have long tinkered with combinations of herbs to cure disease .

    中医一直通过搭配使用各种草药来给人治病。

  6. Science has tinkered with similar notions for years .

    科学界多年来也一直在进行相关研究。

  7. So they tinkered with the ash and developed a new core material for vacuum insulated panels .

    因此他们对灰烬进行了加工,从而研制出一种新型的真空绝缘板核心材料。

  8. Wozniak tinkered with the prototype of the new machine ,

    沃兹尼亚克在完善新一代机器的样机

  9. The Chemists have tinkered with heat and metal catalysts to refine their materials .

    化学家摆弄热和金属催化剂来提炼。

  10. He was on holiday , he tinkered about with attending various parties .

    他在休假,所以参加各种宴会以消磨时间。

  11. Again , this is a tool many physicians , including myself , have tinkered with and eventually abandoned .

    这是一个,一再被许多医生,包括我自己,胡乱使用甚至抛弃的一种工具。

  12. For days , he tinkered with the router 's settings , but couldn 't figure out a fix .

    他花了好几天时间调整路由器的设置,但没能找到解决问题的办法。

  13. At the Beijing Olympics of 2008 , five athletes were caught and disqualified for using drugs that tinkered with EPO receptors .

    2008年北京奥运会上共有五名运动员被发现使用了会干扰促红细胞生成素感受器的药物,而被褫夺参赛资格。

  14. Lone inventors have long tinkered in garages .

    长久以来,孤独的发明家都是在车库里搞发明。

  15. Es ancient paper are double-sided printing machinery , paper thin , should be chosen in the process of repair , toughness good cotton paper tinkered with Japan .

    西文古籍纸张基本上都是双面印刷的机械纸,在修复的过程中要选用薄的、韧性较好的日本棉纸进行修补。

  16. If you 're like most , you 've probably tinkered with Twitter for a few weeks , then written it off as a diversion .

    比如你像多数人一样,你可能已经在Twitter上面修修补补了数周,终归不写了之。

  17. Weekends , he tinkered in the cellar , turning scraps of plywood into a utility cabinet or fixing a broken toy with spare parts .

    周末,他在地下室里修修补补,把胶合板的边角料做成一个实用的小柜子,或者用一些零件把坏了的玩具修好。

  18. Since the first permanent pacemaker was installed in 1958 , manufacturers of implantable medical devices ( IMDs ) have tinkered with many different ways of supplying electricity to their products .

    自从1958年第一个永久起搏器被植入后,可植入医疗设备的制造商就在不断尝试为其产品提供电能的各种方法。

  19. But when another group of researchers tinkered with Breakout 's code - shifting the location of the paddles by just a few pixels - its abilities plummeted .

    但是,当另一组研究人员对Breakout的代码进行修改,将电板的位置稍稍改变了几个像素后,它的能力便一落千丈。

  20. Raised by adoptive parents who did not graduate from college , Jobs tinkered with electronics at a young age with his father , who worked as a mechanic and carpenter .

    乔布斯在收养家庭里长大,养父母大学肄业,爸爸是机械工兼木匠,从孩童时期起,乔布斯就开始跟着养父一起围着电子器件修修补补。

  21. Early balloonists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries tinkered with parachutes . Some workable designs were produced , but they remained a novelty , and experimentation continued .

    18世纪晚期和19世纪早期驾驶热气球的人喜欢随意改进降落伞。尽管出现了一些行之有效的设计,但是降落伞还是新鲜事物,实验仍在继续。

  22. Demand media ( DMD ) admitted potential disaster is Google ( GOOG ) tinkered too much with its search algorithms , yet still priced well ( although it had struggled in the aftermarket ) .

    互联网内容供应商DemandMedia公司承认,潜在的大患是谷歌公司(Google)频繁修改其搜索算法,但其股价仍然坚挺(虽然它一度在二级市场苦苦挣扎)。

  23. The house had a garage - an appendage that would prove both useful and iconic in the valley - in which they tinkered around until they had their first product , an audio oscillator .

    房子有一间车库——这间车库后来成为了硅谷的标志之一——在这里,他们敲敲打打,制造出了自己的第一件产品:一台音频振荡器。

  24. Harden didn 't let that happen , scoring two-thirds of Houston 's points in the first half while D'Antoni tinkered with the rotation , quickly opting to play small lineups when 36-year-old fill-in starting center Nene Hilario rested .

    但哈登显然不想让这一切发生,在36岁的首发中锋内内下场休息后,德安东尼当机立断选择用小阵容维持球队运转,于是我们看到哈登半场轰下球队2/3的得分。

  25. To compensate for the intensity of pressure cooking and the truncated cooking time , she has tinkered with the amounts of star anise , ginger , cinnamon and salt , and has added a bit of apple , using fish sauce for fortification after the pho is cooked .

    为了补偿蒸食和缩短烹饪时间所损失的鲜味,她放入了大量八角、姜、肉桂和盐,还放了一点苹果,在越南粉做好后使用鱼酱做最后调味。

  26. Each weekday Dad made the three-hour commute to and from Long Island , where he was a supervisor in a comparty that serviced jet engines . Weekends , he tinkered in the cellar , turning scraps of plywood into a utility cabinet or fixing a broken toy with spare parts .

    爸爸每天去长岛上班来回要坐三个小时的车。他在那儿的一家飞机发动机维修公司做监督,周末他就在地窖里东修西补,不是把零星的胶合板拼凑成多用柜,就是找些个零部件修理破玩具。