| 单词 | tinker |
| 释义 | tin·ker I. 1. a. b. chiefly Irish < a story of wandering tinkers and their struggle against the conventions of society — Paul Rotha > c. d. 2. 3. < desire of every theatrical tinker and literary meddler — Richard Hanser > < social tinkers — O.W.Holmes †1935 > < all of us are … tinkers of words — Holiday > II. intransitive verb < the American likes to tinker, and his passion for gadgets is notorious — H.S.Commager > < while he could read blueprints … he preferred to experiment and tinker — J.K.Galbraith > < even professionals have to tinker to make these sentences come out right — Milton Hall > — often used with with or at < spent … his spare time tinkering with machines — Current Biography > < people tinker with their houses and keep adding to them — Mary H. Vorse > < the feeling they could also tinker with their social system and their psyches to reach a worldly paradise — J.D.Hart > < began to tinker at the wound in rather a clumsy way — Stephen Crane > < was always tinkering at verse — W.A.White > — sometimes used with around < is not something that can be easily fixed merely by tinkering around with the cirriculum — Norman Cousins > transitive verb < could expertly tinker pot, pan, or kettle — S.H.Adams > < they tinker everything, from decrepit hay rakes to railroad bridges — S.K.Farrington > < had tinkered their old car into shape — John Hermann > — sometimes used with up < tinker up as many of the finished models as could be kept off the scrap heap — L.J.Carr > |
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