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小词详解 | fiddle
fiddle 英 [ˈfɪdl] 美 [ˈfɪdl]
In this case an obsession with the “work resumption rate” has invited fiddling.
在眼下这个例子里,对“复工率”的痴迷诱使人们做了手脚。
——《经济学人》“Are they going to take my car away and fiddle with the engine?” she said with a worried tone, as she served tea in her sunlit dining room.
“他们会把我的车开走,摆弄它的引擎吗?”她一边担忧地说着,一边在自己阳光普照的餐厅给来客端上茶水。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 以不安或紧张的方式触摸或摆弄某物
和我们公司名义上的老板谈话时他不停地摆弄钥匙。
He was fiddling with his keys while he talked to the nominal head of our company.
急剧上升的成本压缩了利润空间。我们最好还是开始干起来,别再闲荡了。
Spiralling costs have squeezed profits. We'd better get started and stop fiddling about.
那个著名建筑师不断地修改这个设计已经好长时间了。
The eminent architect has been fiddling about with this design for ages.
自从他侵吞了公司的大笔资金后,多年来他一直在篡改账目。
He had been fiddling the accounts for years since he appropriated a great deal of the company's money.
You guys played me like a fiddle. Touché!
你们这些家伙把我当小提琴玩。真是!
fuss: move around or busy oneself restlessly fidget: make small movements, especially of the hands and feet, through nervousness or impatience twiddle: twist, move, or fiddle with (something), typically in a purposeless or nervous way