tinkering 的 3 个定义
- a mender of pots, kettles, pans, etc., usually an itinerant.
- an unskillful or clumsy worker; bungler.
- a person skilled in various minor kinds of mechanical work; jack-of-all-trades.
- (6)
- to busy oneself with a thing without useful results: Stop tinkering with that clock and take it to the repair shop.
- to work unskillfully or clumsily at anything.
- to do the work of a tinker.
- to mend as a tinker.
- to repair in an unskillful, clumsy, or makeshift way.
tinkering 近义词
fiddle with
由tinkering构成的短语
- tinker with
- not worth a damn (tinker's damn)
更多tinkering例句
- Ford began tinkering in his garage in Detroit in the 1890s, trains and the horse and buggy was the dominant mode of transport.
- Once a lease is signed, the most people can generally accomplish is “technical tinkering rather than radical reform,” she says.
- And it especially strengthens those who look to meet massive challenges with little more than small-scale policy tinkering.
- There is no improvising, no tinkering with the script and very little room for actors to suggest improvements.
- It refers to what Americans call eau-de-vie, though Austrians have been tinkering with and perfecting the drink for centuries.
- In the dawnlight he saw Welborn and Landy tinkering with the old model that had brought them so valiantly through the mountains.
- Bernice saw that Warren's eyes had left a ukulele he had been tinkering with and were fixed on her questioningly.
- I wish to Heaven you would get him to leave off tinkering those commercial treaties that he is always making such a fuss about.
- But all this tinkering has left very sorry scars, and even the tower outside has not been spared.
- A house is never really finished until one loses interest in it and stops tinkering and planning homely improvements.