| 词汇 | fiddle around with something |
| 释义 | fiddle around with somethingfiddle around with something (also fiddle about with something British English) phrasal verbphr v a) CHANGE/MAKE something DIFFERENTto move the parts of a machine in order to try to make it work or repair it 拨弄〔使之运转或修好〕 I’ve been fiddling around with this old car for months but I still can’t get it to work. 这辆旧车我捣鼓了几个月，但还是开不了。 b) CHANGE/MAKE something DIFFERENTto make small unnecessary changes to something – used to show disapproval 乱动，瞎搞〔含贬义〕 SYN mess around with Why did you let her fiddle about with the remote control? 你为什么让她乱动遥控器？ The bus company is always fiddling around with the schedules. 公共汽车公司老是乱改时间表。 Examples from the Corpus fiddle around with • I was fiddling around with a couple of tracks, trying various things.• Watching a kid fiddling around with fried bread.• Talking all the time she opened a few cupboards, then got a tin out and fiddled around with it.• She's always having the builders in to fiddle around with something or other.• Unfortunately there's no way to arrange text into columns without fiddling around with the tab settings. → fiddle around with something at fiddle2(2) |
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