tinker
美 [ˈtɪŋkər] 
英 [ˈtɪŋkə(r)]
- n.补锅匠
- v.（尤指不起作用地）小修补
- 网络修补匠；地精修补匠；廷克
词形变化
复数：tinkers 现在分词：tinkering 过去式：tinkered 同义词
英汉双解
1. | （旧时走街串巷的）小炉匠，补锅匠，白铁匠(in the past) a person who travelled from place to place, selling or repairing things |
1. | [i] ~ (with sth) （尤指不起作用地）小修补，小修理to make small changes to sth in order to repair or improve it, especially in a way that may not be helpful |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
But these pictures are not the work of a Surrealist - they are what happened when Google tried to tinker with its images of Earth.
但是他们不是超现实主义的艺术品，而是Google在试图修补地图上的地貌影像时产生的意外效果。
Or, in theory, he could have decided that it was too dangerous to tinker and that the system would eventually correct itself.
或者从理论上讲，罗斯福本来应该认识到问题太严重了不能进行修修补补，资本主义体系最终会实现自我修正。
And when the auto tinker opened the door of the mother's car there was no one inside.
修理工打开孩子妈妈乘坐的车的车门，里面并没有人。
The cook turned pale, and asked the housemaid to shut the door, who asked Tom, who asked the tinker, who pretended not to hear.
厨子的脸色变得苍白，要女仆把门关上，女仆叫汤姆去关，汤姆又叫补锅匠去关，而补锅匠却装做没听见。
Robin slipped the warrant out of the tinker's bag and headed for the door. He winked at the innkeeper who waved as he left.
罗宾从小炉匠的袋子里抽出逮捕状，朝门口走去。酒馆老板在他离去时对他挥挥手，罗宾则向他眨了眨眼睛。
The tinker could not help but like Robin Hood. He thought for a minute and then he agreed. The tinker was now one of Robin Hood's men.
小炉匠忍不住喜欢罗宾汉。他思考了一会儿，然后同意了。小炉匠现在成了罗宾汉手下的一员。
For his part, Mr McCarthy continued to tinker away at a truly thinking machine at Stanford. He never quite saw his dream realised.
McCarthy则继续在斯坦福想要捣鼓出一台真正会思考的机器，可他从没看到这个梦想实现。
The next day, Robin waited for the tinker. He knew the man would be coming back to find him.
第二天，罗宾等者小炉匠。他知道这个人会回来找他。
The iPhone was the first phone that a Luddite could figure out in seconds and a hacker could tinker around with for endless hours.
iPhone是第一台外行人能够迅速学会使用的手机，而黑客却要花很多小时去摆弄它。
The shoes, devised by legendary Nike designer Tinker Hatfield over the course of two years, retail for a cool $250.
这双鞋由耐克传奇设计师哈特•菲尔德用了两年的时间设计，零售价是250美元。
This means you have to tinker with the settings - something that turned out to be easy once the problem had been identified.
这样一来，你就不得不试着调整网络设置，而最终看来，一旦知道问题出在这里，解决起来还是很容易的。
But Tinker Bell can be nice . She helps Peter Pan . She helps the children. She's a cute little fairy.
但小叮当能做得很好。她帮助彼得潘。她帮助孩子们。她是个可爱的小仙女。
First you call up a blueprint on your computer screen and tinker with its shape and colour where necessary.
首先，你在电脑屏幕上显示蓝图，在需要修改的地方修改它的形状和颜色。
Wind was blowing the wind chimes sway gently, Tinker pumping ring, awakened the sleeping, disturbed heart.
被风吹拂过的风铃轻轻摆动，叮叮唧响，惊醒了睡梦，扰乱着心扉。
"Do not touch" signs give way to outright encouragement to tinker, see, hear, feel and, crucially, figure stuff out for oneself.
“请勿触摸”的告示让位于完全的鼓励；对于敲敲打打，看，听，感觉以及最重要的--自己弄明白点什么。
When he left Nike, Tinker Hatfield got the sketches and in amongst it were the outline of the Air Jordan Jumpman logo.
当他离开耐克的时候，Tinker已经画好草图了，那个草图就是飞人logo的轮廓。
If I had the money I'd go down to Tinker 's Falls and open a swell shoe store.
我有了钱，就到廷克瀑布一带，开一家象样的鞋店。
The source code for the mail example and the previous example are available for you to tinker with.
您可以获得邮件示例和先前示例的源代码进行修改。
Around the laboratory, technicians tinker with robots simulating industrial production processes.
在实验室四周，技术人员在忙乱地修理着模拟工业生产过程的机器人。
"You tinker with that at your peril, " he said.
“你在冒险进行胡乱修补。”他说。
Tinker with a few physical constants and we would end up with no stars, or no matter, or a universe that lasts only for the blink of an eye.
摆弄少数几个物理常数，我们最终将会导致没有恒星，或者没有物质，或者宇宙只能持续地存在于极短的一瞬间的结论。
So Tinker's team concludes that cutting back on fat without exercising or losing weight may not be enough to cut diabetes risk.
因此，Tinker博士的研究小组得出的结论就是减少膳食脂肪而不运动或减轻体重对减少糖尿病风险可能是不足的。
But he was much more than just a clever tinker with things and words.
但是，他远不仅只是一个善于摆弄东西和词藻的能工巧匠。
"Good afternoon, Mr. Tinker. " he said, smiling boyishly.
“您好，丁克先生。”他说，露出孩子气的笑容。
With time, technology becomes outdated, so weapons must be redesigned, giving the top brass a chance to tinker endlessly with requirements.
随着时间的推移，技术变得落伍，所以需要对武器进行重新实际，从而给予项目负责人一个不断提出需求进行修修补补的机会。
Perhaps Tinker Bell was not the only one responsible.
或许，小叮当不是唯一该负责的人。
o Find ways to help customers and others on the edge to tinker with your products.
寻找各种途径帮助处于边缘位置的消费者们去修理你的产品。
Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say.
补锅匠汤姆·海德站在断头台上，问他有什么话要说。
Give my husband an old motorbike to tinker with and he's as happy as a dog with two tails.
给我丈夫一辆旧摩托车修理，他会非常高兴的。
Ranieri may be known as 'Tinker Man', but his versatility is admired by the England boss.
尽管拉涅利被人称为“补锅匠”，但他的能力得到了英格兰主教练的认可。
Mr Zittrain calls it "generative" : people can tinker with it, creating new services and elbowing existing ones aside.
紫泉先生称之为“生产性”：人们可以对他进行小修小补，建立新的服务让现有的靠边站。
For the next three months, I didn't just tinker around with blogging. I dedicated myself to it.
接下来的3个月时间，我没有在敷衍地写博客，而是全身心地投入了。
Tinker with its culture, the game's executives say, and the sport would be irretrievably weakened.
该联盟的管理者称，对其文化进行修补，这项运动将受到无可挽回的削弱。
Tinker Bell is a nickname for our city site volunteers, as well as a nickname is to park volunteers.
小叮当是给我们城市站点志愿者的昵称，还有个昵称是给园区志愿者的。
As surety , recipients were made to supply their identity details, raising suspicions that Mr Elahi meant to tinker with voter lists.
为了确保其真实性，那些接受礼物的人要提供身份详情，这样就让人产生了质疑，即艾莱西的本意是要修改选民名单。
What I got from it is how writers, Murakami included, often tinker with and rework their stories.
这件事给我的启发就是，作家，包括村上春树在内，经常修改、修正他们的故事。
In principle, drugs could tinker with the epigenetic code to turn entire sets of rogue genes on and off .
原则上，药物可拨弄外遗传编码，进而开启或关闭整组坏基因；
The Supreme Court recognized student political speech with its 1969 decision, Tinker v. Des Moines (Iowa) School District.
最高法院1969年廷克诉得梅因校区案（Tinkerv.DesMoinesSchoolDistrict）的裁决承认学生的政治言论。
This would be preferable to the Obama administration's new proposals to tinker with US rules on tax deferral.
这将比奥巴马政府修补美国延期纳税规定的新提案更为可取。
Companies tinker with today's products rather than pay researchers to think big thoughts.
很多公司宁愿对现有产品修修补补，也不愿聘请研究人员做大项目。
