tinkers

tinkers

美 [ˈtɪŋkər] 　英 [ˈtɪŋkə(r)]

• n.〈英〉小炉匠；补锅匠；修补匠；拙劣的工人
• v.做补锅匠；拙劣地修补
• 网络修表匠；修补族；普利策奖获奖小说

词形变化

复数：tinkers  现在分词：tinkering  过去式：tinkered  

同义词

英汉解释

n.	1. 〈英〉小炉匠;补锅匠;修补匠;补锅;修补 2. 拙劣的工人;粗劣的修补 3. 〈美〉杂活工人,打杂工 4. 吉卜赛人;流浪工人;流浪者;乞丐 5. 小臼炮 6. 〈美〉小鲐鱼
v.	1. 做补锅匠;拙劣地修补

英英解释

n.	1. in the past, a man who traveled from place to place repairing metal objects such as pans 2. a young child who behaves badly
v.	1. to make small changes to something in order to improve or repair it

例句

He has no full-time employees, but owns about 20 vehicles, plus another 20 broken-down ones he tinkers with or plunders for parts.

他没有雇佣全职工，不过拥有大约20辆农用机械车，还有另外20辆多少有些故障，他都自己修理或者拆卸部件用在其他地方。

The drug enters rivers from the sewer system and tinkers with the brain chemistry of fish, the researchers claimed.

科学家声称，这种药从污水管道系统进入河流，胡乱的改造了鱼的大脑化学结构。

This means that both large-scale hardware manufacturers and garage tinkers can utilize the code.

也就是说大型厂商和车库里的手工操作者都可以使用这些代码。

He tinkers with miniature train sets for a hobby.

他把修理小火车当成嗜好。

PAUL HARDING, musician and writer, whose debut novel, "Tinkers, " won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

保罗*哈丁，音乐家和作家，处女小说《思考者》赢得2010年普利兹小说大奖。

and Mr Gates's review only tinkers with America's military structure.

而盖茨先生的此份报告不过是对美国的军事结构进行了一些拙劣的修补。

Even when she is not being overtly mendacious, she tinkers with the truth.

即使当她不是公开撒谎时，她在事实的真相上也是笨拙的

Color strength control of bases and tinkers.

对基漆和色浆的着色力控制和调整。

If "ifs" and "andes" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers.

如果种种“假如”能够变成深锅和浅锅，补锅匠就没有生意了。

Many surviving nomads (tinkers in Ireland, for example) are not Romanies.

许多现在的游牧民（例如，爱尔兰的补锅匠）都不是罗姆人。

Last year, I only threw a lot of tinkers without changing a lot of speeds. Today, I changed a lot of speeds.

去年，我只投很多伸卡球并没有改变速差。今天，我有做很多速差的调整。