tinkering的意思|tinkering的解释-里氏词典

tinkering ['tɪŋkɚ]

[机] 铸补

Tinker \Tink"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tinkered}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Tinkering}.]
To mend or solder, as metal wares; hence, more generally, to
mend.

Tinkering \Tink"er*ing\, n.
The act or work of a tinker.

The difference is that comparatively affluent Hungary, with 20 years experience in tinkering with socialism, is the communist country best prepared to take the free-market plunge.
The cooks at home, she says, have neither the time nor the temperament to experiment with complex recipes that need tinkering.
While Japan's overall surplus has in fact dropped as a result of these changes, the lingering U.S.-Japan imbalance shows the limits of such economic tinkering.
Insiders say Mr. Olsen manages the company like the engineer that he is, taking apart things that don't work and tinkering with them until they do.
Mr. De Benedetti disputes the Franco-Belgian group's claim that it has a 52% stake in Generale de Belgique, calling it "arithmetical tinkering" and labeling the consortium an "unreal and heterogeneous coalition of contradictory interests."
The book shows its age, despite Racheff's tinkering.
The Coca-Cola Co., which learned the hard way about consumer loyalty when it changed the formula of Coke five years ago, apparently isn't worried about tinkering with the product that replaced it.
The owner, identified later as Jeremy Conn, 56, was tinkering with a furnace or making some repairs when the blast hit, Fire Department spokesman Tom Sheppard said.
For two years, Ernst Fredrik Werner Alexanderson, a consulting engineer for GE and the Radio Corporation of America, had been tinkering with a machine that used perforated spinning disks to transmit pictures.
The Soviets have been tinkering with their doctrine, as well, declaring that they will maintain forces adequate only to fend off an attack, not to launch one.
As Bush headed off to California on Wednesday, House Republicans were voting en masse to declare their opposition to tax increases in any form, including tinkering with the maximum tax rates on upper-income earners.
Members of Lee's astronaut class named themselves "maggots." After some unsuccessful tinkering with the device, the astronauts attached a hose to it so they could control the flow of water.
Product tinkering often invites production headaches.
Carlson, a patent attorney in New York City who noticed that there never seemed to be enough carbon copies of patent specifications, perfected his idea by tinkering in the kitchen sink.
And he said, `Say `tape,' not `film."' "I'm a new boy," he said. "It would be folly to go in and start tinkering.
He has been tinkering with the inefficient, state-run farm system almost constantly since taking power four years ago, and a good growing season could give him the kind of sorely needed victory that has eluded his reform efforts.
The company must have reasoned that Ofwat is far enough down the road not to indulge in last minute tinkering. To do so would rob management of the incentive to cut costs, which is precisely what the system of price cap regulation is supposed to deliver.
None of these touches would matter a hoot, of course, if the acoustics were bleak, but months of model-building and tinkering with the baffles underneath the balconies seem to have paid off for Peter George, the acoustical designer.
"If the pollutants are still there but it just smells differently," he said, "you don't eliminate the major objection." But the RJR spokeswoman said: "We think the concept is sound enough to warrant tinkering with and coming up with an alternative brand.
The other side _ the winning side _ said any tinkering with the First Amendment would erode freedoms too precious to put at risk, and make it easier to act against the next set of unpopular dissenters.
But the troubles didn't really begin until I started tinkering with it to compensate for the lane changes," Roth says.
Leaders of the Vietnam Veterans of America and the Paralyzed Veterans of America said, however, they thought a statute could be tried first, before tinkering with the Constitution.
What is needed now is not more tinkering, but systematic development of a more job-promoting tax and benefit system.
But marketers say tinkering with the actual product or packaging of a consumer good that can be ingested requires extraordinary caution.
But at least one thing is clear: Currency and interest-rate movements can overwhelm any tinkering with tariffs.
Frank Marentic earned his science degree on the workbench, tinkering his way into the automotive design industry and giving 3M a foothold there with 18 years of creative work in Detroit.
That should not be tackled by tinkering with marketmakers' privileges at the expense of transparency.
But scientists are slowly uncovering the body's chemical machinery that wears down after decades of use and are tinkering with ways to repair it.
"It's not the massive overhaul some tout it to be, but it's not a minor tinkering either," said William Archey, international vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Democratic congressional leaders said it could be done by law, without constitutional tinkering, and they passed one, including a provision for swift review by the Supreme Court. Bush let it become law without his signature.

您正在访问的是
中国词汇量第二的英语词典
更多精彩，登录后发现......

2005 - 2024 Dict.li Online Dictionary

验证码
用户名
密　码
	注册