Tinker

(noun.) formerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal utensils as a way to earn a living.

(noun.) a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts.

(verb.) try to fix or mend; 'Can you tinker with the T.V. set--it's not working right'; 'She always fiddles with her van on the weekend'.

(verb.) work as a tinker or tinkerer.

朱厄尔录入

• Where's the change, old Tinker? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He's always at law business, said Mrs. Tinker, taking up the pot of porter. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Mr. Giles directed an appealing glance at the tinker; but he had suddenly fallen asleep. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• I don't care a tinker's curse about it. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• So am I,' said the tinker, waking up, as suddenly as he had fallen asleep. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Not that a man is to blame for being stupid, be he duke or tinker; but then Devonshire is so incorrigibly affected and stingy withal! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Summun had run away from me--a man--a tinker--and he'd took the fire with him, and left me wery cold. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• For the tinkering reformer is frequently one of the worst of the routineers. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• When she got to the top, to see the old, velvety surface of the pond before her, she noticed a man on the bank, tinkering with a punt. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Most of the tramping tinkers used to come and lodge at our place; that was the best part of my master's earnings. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• They are found in all European countries to-day; they are tinkers, pedlars, horse-dealers, showmen, fortune-tellers, and beggars. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Who can care a straw, really, how the old patched-up Constitution is tinkered at any more? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The instruction-book prepared for the use of inspectors stated that 'The parts should not be tinkered nor bent, as they are accurately made and interchangeable. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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