英 [ˈtɪŋkə(r)] 美 [ˈtɪŋkər]
n. 补锅匠；（经验不足的）修补匠；焊锅；修补；吉普赛人；流浪者；小淘气；（美）小鲭鱼
v. （徒劳地或马虎地）小修补；笨手笨脚地做事；做焊锅匠；焊补
n. （Tinker）（美）廷克（人名）
复数tinkers
第三人称单数tinkers
现在分词tinkering
过去式tinkered
过去分词tinkered
tinker /ˈtɪŋkə/ TEM8 [ tinkering tinkered tinkers ]
不及物动词 If you tinker with something, you make some small changes to it, in an attempt to improve it or repair it. 小修改
Instead of the country admitting its error, it just tinkered with the problem.
该国未承认自己的错误，只是对这个问题稍作修改。
a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts
同义词： tinkerer
formerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal utensils as a way to earn a living
small mackerel found nearly worldwide
同义词： chub mackerel / Scomber japonicus
do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
同义词： putter / mess around / potter / monkey / monkey around / muck about / muck around
work as a tinker or tinkerer
小鲐鱼(pneumatophorus grex);小鲭鱼(scomber japonicus)( = chub mackerel);小斜竹荚鱼
修补匠(Tinker)：出门2树枝 6吃树 2回蓝。必出秘法，飞靴。
地精修补匠(Tinker)：修补匠，英文简称TK。TK的智力成长只有2.2，甚至不如很多非法师，力量和敏捷也毫不突出，再加上没有任何限制技能，我最初很是想...
补锅匠（Tinkering）：补锅匠通常都会在大街上沿街喊叫来招揽生意。从古至今，补锅匠就 是锅及水壶最好的制造者和修理者。
读高一时，许扬第一次接触到电脑，从此一发而不可收拾，常常逃课跑回家里鼓捣(Tinker)他那台386。平等公正的对待你和他的爱情，脚踩很多船最终会翻掉。
Are you ready, Tinker Bell?
你准备好了吗，婷咔·贝尔？
Perhaps Tinker Bell will tell me.
也许小叮当会告诉我。
Overhead Tinker Bell shouted "Silly ass!"
头顶的小叮当喊着：“蠢驴！”
And by that I mean a Burkean conservatism, a set of beliefs that says the world is ordered as it is, for reasons, and that human beings ought not tinker with that order, very much.
这里我指的是一种保守主义,相信这世界是始终按照秩序,运转的一套信仰,因此,人类 无论如何不能去僭越规则
美国内战与重建课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
I like it just because I like to build things and tinker with things.
我喜欢机械工程因为我喜欢建东西，摆弄东西。
SpeakingMax英语口语达人 : 学习机械工程
The experience is almost dizzying, as the birds flit about like Tinker Bells of the forest.
It could add to it, take away from it, and tinker with it at will.
If revamping the entire tax code is impractical, then lawmakers will tinker around the edges.
FORBES: Raising Romney's Taxes Will Rile the Masses but Is It Good Policy?