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Tinker Tinkering Small Improve Repair Ed N Count 可数名词

英语单词 tinker
英美音标 英 ['tɪŋkə(r)] 美 ['tɪŋkər]
中文释义 n.修补匠;焊锅
vi.做焊锅匠;笨拙地修补
vt.修补;调整;改进
英语例句 (1) Sure enough, he saw the tinker walking toward him.
(2) He likes tinkering with computers.
(3) He's been tinkering with that engine for hours, but it still won't go.
(4) Other scientists tinker with Darwin by borrowing a page from the creationists'book.
(5) Arcane nullifiers recognize Common, but only an experienced tinker, shouting out the correct codes, may command them.
中文例句 (1) 果然,他看到小炉匠向他走过来。
(2) 他喜爱乱改进计算机。
(3) 他花了几个小时摆弄那个引擎,想修好它,但它还是不转。
(4) 其他科学家借上帝创造宇宙论者们书中的片言只语来修补达尔文的理论。
(5) 虽然奥术消除者被认可为是公民,但只要是一名经验丰富的修补匠,高喊出正确的指令,就可以命令它们。
柯林斯解释
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[VERB 动词]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.
  [V with n]
  [V]
  • 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。

  • It is not enough to tinker at the edges; our objective must be to reconstruct the entire system.

    只在外缘做一些小修小补是不够的,我们的目标必须是重建整个系统。

tinkering
  • No amount of tinkering is going to improve matters.

    任何小修小补都是于事无补的。

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[N-COUNT 可数名词](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.
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    [N-COUNT 可数名词](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 .
      [BRIT 英]
      [OFFENSIVE 冒犯]

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