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单词 tinker
释义
tinker
verb[Iusually+ adv/prep]
uk
/ˈtɪŋ.kər/us
/ˈtɪŋ.kɚ/
to makesmallchangesto something,especiallyin anattempttorepairorimproveit:
修补；改进；摆弄
Hespendseveryweekendtinkering(around)withhiscar.他每个周末都在摆弄他的汽车。
Iwishthegovernmentwouldstoptinkeringwiththehealthservice.我希望政府不要再在公共医疗卫生服务上折腾了。
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fiddleverb(MOVE ABOUT)
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Correcting and mending
  • calibration
  • clean(someone/something)up
  • correction
  • fiddle
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  • fine-tune
  • mess
  • put/setsomeonerightidiom
  • recondition
  • reconstruct
  • reconstruction
  • rectification
  • remedy
  • revise
  • revised
  • servicing
  • set/put the record straightidiom
  • smoothsomethingaway
  • smoothen
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tinker
noun
uk
/ˈtɪŋ.kər/us
/ˈtɪŋ.kɚ/

tinkernoun(TRAVELLER)

[C]
especiallyin the past, apersonwhotravelledfromplacetoplace,repairingpansor othermetalcontainers
（尤指过去游走四方的）补锅匠
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  • bird of passage
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  • day-tripper
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  • emmet
  • flashpacker
  • globetrotter
  • itinerant
  • passenger
  • pioneer
  • sightseer
  • stayer
  • super-commuter
  • swagman
  • tourist office
  • touristic
  • tripper
  • wanderer
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tinkernoun(CHILD)

[C]UKold-fashionedinformal
achildwhobehavesbadly:
小淘气
[as form of address]You tinker, Nicky, you shouldn't have done that.尼基，你这个小淘气，你不该那么做。
Don't be such a tinker.别这么淘气。
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a child
  • childWhen I was a child the summers seemed to go on for ever.
  • boyThere's a new boy in my class.
  • girlThe girl's name is Sally.
  • kidI'm off to pick up the kids from school.
  • kiddieI saw her with a little kiddie in a pushchair.
  • little oneThe little ones must be hungry by now.
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  • oops-a-daisy
  • pacifier
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  • pest
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tinkernoun(CHANGES)

[S]UK
theactivityof makingsmallchangesto something:
（对…作的）修补，改进
I'll just haveatinkerwiththe TV andseeif I can get it towork.我就摆弄一下电视，看能不能修好。
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  • mess
  • put/setsomeonerightidiom
  • recondition
  • reconstruct
  • reconstruction
  • rectification
  • remedy
  • revise
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  • smoothsomethingaway
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Idiom

not give a tinker's cuss
(Definition oftinkerfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

tinker| American Dictionary

tinker
verb[Ialways+ adv/prep]
us
/ˈtɪŋ·kər/
to makesmallchangesin something, because youhopetoimproveorfixit:
Chuck tinkers with the car’sengineall thetime.
(Definition oftinkerfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftinker

tinker
To introduce controlled dissonances was totinkerwith the rational attunement between body, soul and world.
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Predictably, legislators confronted by 'unanticipated' and 'excessive' cost pressures would be tempted totinkerwith program operations and rules.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Wetinkerwith our procedures and premises, our institutions and practices.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Bothtinkerand soldier are innocent gulls, deceived but not deceiving.
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Evolution cannot invent something quite new but can onlytinkerwith what is already there.
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Branding designers maytinkerwith its details - a differently shaped canopy fascia here, a new shop front there - but the basic concept remains the same.
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Overseas, administrations tended to waver between a general policy of benign neglect and attempts totinkermore directly with the fringes of immense problems of morbidity.
From theCambridge English Corpus
I would point out here that we should nottinkerwith the timetable; that would be a futile exercise.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
The common position forms a balanced text which we should nottinkerwith too much.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
We cannot wait until it is too late and thentinkerabout with the symptoms.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
He said that the others did not matter a tinker's cuss.
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I am not concerned one tinker's toss of a button whether a shipowner makes money or loses it.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
In the case of single men everybody seems inclined not to care a tinker's curse what happens to him simply because he is single.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
At all events, no one will care a "tinker's cuss" about that.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The rest do not matter a tinker's cuss.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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