tinkered的中文翻译是什么意思

VERB小修;小补;摆弄

If you tinker with something, you make some small changes to it, in an attempt to improve it or repair it.

• Instead of the Government admitting its error, it just tinkered with the problem...

  政府没有承认错误，只是敷衍了事地处理问题。

• They tinkered with the engine…

  他们修了修发动机。

N-COUNT(旧时的)补锅匠，修理匠

In former times, a tinker was a person who did not have a fixed home, but travelled from place to place mending metal pots and doing other small repair jobs.

N-COUNT(尤指爱尔兰裔的)流浪者，吉卜赛人

Some people refer to any traveller or gipsy, especially one who is Irish, as a tinker .