tinker
tinker 英 [ˈtɪŋkə(r)] 美 [ˈtɪŋkɚ]
n. 补锅匠；修补匠；焊锅；（美）小鲭鱼 vi. 做焊锅匠；焊补；笨手笨脚地做事 vt. 修补；粗修
进行时:tinkering 过去式:tinkered 过去分词:tinkered 第三人称单数:tinkers 名词复数:tinkers
- When you tinker, you work casually or attempt to fix something, the way you might tinker with your brother's old bike or tinker with the website you're building for fun.
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- n. 补锅匠；修补匠；焊锅；（美）小鲭鱼
- vi. 做焊锅匠；焊补；笨手笨脚地做事
- vt. 修补；粗修
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1. If we begin to tinker with that and don’t know what we are doing, we are likely to mess up and cause side effects that might only become evident much later.
如果我们开始修补这个系统，却不知道在做什么，那就肯定会弄得一团糟，并且可能很久之后才会发现所引起的副作用。
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2. It's not perfect, but like many instances of technological development, we tinker at it and it changes and eventually we come to a point where we like it or keep changing.
这并不完美，但是就像许多技术发展的实例，我们在对其进行修补并得到了改善，最终我们会达到我们满意的程度，若没有我们还会继续改进。
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3. The assumption in here" – he nods impatiently towards the House of Commons – "is that we tinker with this economic system, and then go back to 60 consecutive quarters of growth.
可能出现的情况是（他匆匆朝经过的下院议员们点了点头）我们随意地修补了这个经济系统，然后重回到持续了60个季度的经济增长。
- tinker (n.) "mender of kettles, pots, pans, etc.," late 14c. (mid-13c. as a surname), of uncertain origin. Some connect the word with the sound made by light hammering on metal. Tinker's damn "something slight and worthless" is from 1824, probably preserving tinkers' reputation for free and casual use of profanity; the plain and simple etymology is not good enough for some writers, and since 1877 an ingeniously elaborate but baseless derivation has been circulated claiming the second word is really dam.
- tinker (v.) 1590s, "to work as a tinker," from tinker (n.). Meaning "work imperfectly, keep busy in a useless way," is first found 1650s. Related: Tinkered; tinkering.
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