英 [ˈfɪdl] 美 [ˈfɪdl]
v. （尤指厌烦或紧张地）不停摆弄；<非正式>篡改，伪造；拉小提琴；略微变动；调整
n. <非正式>小提琴；<非正式>欺诈，骗局；<非正式>修理，调整；<非正式>难事；（防止餐具在恶劣天气条件下滚落或滑落的）餐桌缘框
复数fiddles
第三人称单数fiddles
现在分词fiddling
过去式fiddled
过去分词fiddled
fiddle /ˈfɪdəl/ CET6+ TEM4 [ fiddling fiddled fiddles ]
不及物动词 If you fiddle with an object, you keep moving it or touching it with your fingers. 不停摆弄
Harriet fiddled with a pen on the desk.
哈丽雅特不停地摆弄桌上的一支钢笔。
不及物动词 If you fiddle with something, you change it in minor ways. 略微改动
She told Whistler that his portrait of her was finished and to stop fiddling with it.
她告诉惠斯勒他为她画的肖像已经完成了，不要再改来改去了。
不及物动词 If you fiddle with a machine, you adjust it. 调试
He turned on the radio and fiddled with the knob until he got a talk show.
他打开收音机，调动旋钮，直到他收到了一个谈话节目。
有变体名词 Some people call violins fiddles, especially when they are used to play folk music. 小提琴
Hardy played the fiddle at local dances.
哈迪在当地的舞会上拉了小提琴。
bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow
同义词： violin
avoid (one's assigned duties)
同义词： shirk / shrink from / goldbrick
commit fraud and steal from one's employer
play the violin or fiddle
play on a violin
Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely
桌面餐具框(防止餐具在船摇摆时滚落)
提琴
小提琴
古提琴
民族提琴
乡村小提琴(Fiddle)：同样是小提琴，FIDDLE更侧重随性、自然、纯朴的演奏风格。西部电影中，姑娘们常常伴随它跳一些轻快的民间舞蹈。
马友友他们的成果之一就是把提琴（Fiddle）的历史分成两种，一种是所谓的正统派，当然可以追溯到文艺复兴时期之前，这种派别经由意大利巴洛克音乐家们的传承今天已成为主流...
...和您同期来到英伦，其兵法成就也许是四强(Semi-finals)主帅中最高的，当其究竟还不过合宜于做一个(A)芸窗中的学者去摆弄(Fiddle)沙盘，临场的应变(Strain)，妙技的多样都是其所欠缺的，伟人所达到并保持着的高处，并不是一飞就到的，而是他们在同伴们都睡着的...
... Bagpipe 风笛 Fiddle 民族提琴 Shanai 山奈 打击乐器 ...
小提琴
瞎搞；拉小提琴
虚度时光；拉小提琴
The fiddle began to twang.
这把小提琴开始发出响亮的拨弦声。
The countryman stopped his fiddle, and left the miser to take his place at the gallows.
仆人放下了他的小提琴，让吝啬鬼代替他坐上了绞架。
Hardy played the fiddle at local dances.
哈迪在当地的舞会上拉了小提琴。
Or a mandolin,or a fiddle or whatever. And some kids come with years of classical violin lessons or Suzuki violin or school orchestra lessons.
VOA : special.2010.08.20
The first two sentences you see: I, too, dislike it: there are things important beyond all this fiddle.
前两行正如你们看到的：,如我，也非钟爱于此,世间有物，重要更甚于此琴。
现代诗歌课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
It's a poem which begins, "I have heard that hysterical women say they are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, of poets that are always gay..."
诗的开头写道，我曾听见歇斯底里的女人们说,她们厌恶调色板和提琴弓，厌恶那些永远快乐的诗人们“
文学理论导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
So if you thought about fiddle records, we would have one of the great fiddle records that would make it into the top ten or top banjo record.
VOA : special.2010.04.19
"You look for a banjo, then you look for a flat top guitar, got to have the stand-up bass, a fiddle works really well, and then you get the old mandolin in because a mandolin really has got some good sound to it too."
VOA : standard.2010.05.28
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and his staff have long played the press like a fiddle.
Flailing owners often fiddle with the menu or the concept, but it rarely works.
The band is made up of Jamie Smith (accordion), Adam Rhodes (bouzouki) and Tomas Callister (fiddle).