tinker meaning in English
n.
1.〔英国〕小炉匠；补锅匠；修补匠；补锅；修补。
2.拙劣的工人；粗劣的修补。
3.〔美国〕杂活工人，打杂工。
4.〔苏，爱〕吉卜赛人；流浪工人；流浪者；乞丐。
5.小臼炮。
6.〔美国〕小鲐鱼。
vi.,vt.
做补锅匠；拙劣地修补。 have a tinker at ... 笨拙地设法修理。 not care a tinker's damn [curse, cuss] 一点不在乎。 not worth a tinker's cuss (curse, damn) 毫无价值。
adj.
-ly
补锅匠似的；粗笨的，拙劣的。
Examples
- He likes to tinker with radios .
他最爱鼓捣收音机。 - Tinker taylor drank off his glass and departed .
补锅匠泰勒把他那杯酒喝完了就起身走了。 - The cognitive psychologist is like the tinker who wants to know how a clock works .
认知心理学者倒很像一个需要通晓钟表如何运转的钟表修理匠。 - Other scientists tinker with darwin by borrowing a page from the creationists' book .
其他科学家借上帝创造宇宙论者们书中的片言只语来修补达尔文的理论。 - If you believe the germans it was a fellow named karl benz, tinkering away in his shop two years later .
你若相信德国人，那就是一个名叫卡尔本兹的人两年后在自己作坊里摆弄出来的。