tinkers
n. 笨拙的工人( tinker的名詞複數 ); (補壺、鍋等流動的)補鍋工人; 能做各種小修小補的人; <美>小鯖魚
v. 做焊鍋匠( tinker的第三人稱單數 ); 焊補; 胡亂修補; 笨手笨腳地做某事
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...
政府沒有承認錯誤,只是敷衍了事地處理問題。
They tinkered with the engine…
他們修了修發動機。
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.
Some people refer to any traveller or gipsy, especially one who is Irish, as a tinker .
Thin metal tins think tinkers kings.
薄薄的金屬罐把補鍋匠當成國王.
He tinkers with old radios a hobby.
他把修理舊收音機當成嗜好.
If ifs and ans were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers.
如果[假使]和[假若]能變成深鍋和淺鍋, 則補鍋匠兒無事做.