tinker
修补匠
definition
verb
he spent hours tinkering with the car
attempt to repair or improve something in a casual or desultory way, often to no useful effect.
noun
The tinkers live by mending pots and pans, telling fortunes and selling horses and ponies at the various fairs throughout the country.
(especially in former times) a person who travels from place to place mending metal utensils as a way of making a living.
I had a brief tinker with my blog template earlier, really to just try and figure out which lines relate to which part of the screen.
an act of attempting to repair something.
translation of 'tinker'
noun
修补匠,
焊锅
example
The old 'tinker' took a stick of solder from a bag at his side and laid its tip against where the edges of the tube and the circle met.
This week, one of his past works, Petra - the story of a soldier, a witch and a 'tinker' helping a young woman to explain to her son why he is now a ghost - is revisited as part of the Glasgow West End Festival.
The more confident 'tinker' may find sport in discharging large capacitors with a well insulated screwdriver (always use an old or borrowed one as this can result in quite nasty pitting of the tip).
It was in this location that a 'tinker' 's body was once found, giving the place the name of the ‘Murder Hole’.
Fresh from the day's rehearsals as Hester Swane, the 'tinker' 's daughter whom she will play for 14 weeks at Wyndhams Theatre, in the West End, Hunter explains the appeal of treading the boards.
I had a brief 'tinker' with my blog template earlier, really to just try and figure out which lines relate to which part of the screen.
And one person described Gaelic as ‘the 'tinker' 's language ’, so that there's obviously some sort of snobbery about the language going on there.
So this week we salute Valentine: 'tinker' , tailor, soldier, priest and, above all, patron saint of card manufacturers.
Finally, she was joined by an old bearded 'tinker' who had come down to the shore with his heavy canvas bag of tradesman's tools.
Christopher Sly, a drunken old 'tinker' , is conned into watching The Taming of the Shrew as it is presented by a company of players.
After 'tinkering' with the controls for some time, I did find the right settings that I was very comfortable with.
Occasionally, it is 'tinkered' with but there are few profound adaptations.
But are the 'tinkers' only using him and to what ends?
Wicketkeepers are notorious 'tinkerers' , especially with regard to their kit.
In the early 1980s the map was 'tinkered' with, forcing both the Midlands and the South into splitting their large regions into 2 sub-regions.
Luckily, I was 'tinkering' with a design for a different site and I've decided to steal that for my re-design.
And just across the waters of the Flash at Aspull Common a similar number of 'tinkers' have moved in with their lorries, vans and caravans using their camp as a base for carrying out driveway laying and paving work in the area.
The Government simply 'tinkers' a bit at the edges with a budget surplus or deficit that runs at a little over one per cent of GDP - neither here nor there.
The other real trouble - involving violence and vandalism in addition to the usual epidemic of thefts - came from Irish 'tinkers' , about whom I blogged here, but failed to mention the manner of their departure.
More than mere 'tinkerers' , record-breakers push the world of possibility beyond the borders of perceived reality.
Solutions do not lie in 'tinkering' with the system, fiddling while Earth burns.
The teenaged Cure played jagged, edgy pop songs before the group 'tinkered' their way upwards into a more complex and competent machine.
Not knowing what to make of this strange jargon, I was uncertain as to what kind of music would soon be blaring out of the powerful-looking speakers being 'tinkered' with.
We shouldn't be 'tinkering' with the checks and balances our founding fathers put in this constitution.
I started on motorcycles, but after two years as a mechanic in the air force I thought I'd make more money 'tinkering' with cars.
The 'tinkers' live by mending pots and pans, telling fortunes and selling horses and ponies at the various fairs throughout the country.
How can we sensibly plan for our retirement when the fundamentals are constantly 'tinkered' with and the goalposts keep being moved?
I've been 'tinkering' a bit, so do please tell me if you have any difficulty posting comments here or linking to any part of this site.
But critics argue the flag is the latest attempt to wrest control from consumers, stifle innovation, create inconvenience, turn 'tinkerers' into criminals and raise prices - all for a technology that won't stop piracy anyway.
I suddenly realized that here I, like the 'tinkers' of whom Della had been so suspicious, was part of a persecuted minority.
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