英语释义

• (informal terms) small and of little importance;

  "a fiddling sum of money"

  "a footling gesture"

  "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"

  "a little (or small) matter"

  "Mickey Mouse regulations"

  "a dispute over niggling details"

  "limited to petty enterprises"

  "piffling efforts"

  "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"

片语

One comes fiddling一个拉着提琴

fiddling while Rome burns琴照弹

second fiddle二流的人；交响乐队中第二小提琴部

fit as a fiddle非常健康

fiddling little details琐碎的细节

Fiddling With His Camera摆弄他照相机

play second fiddle居次位；当副手

THE FIDDLING LADIES拉小提琴的女人们

fiddle with摆弄；乱动；玩弄；弄虚作假

a fiddling little key极小的钥匙

Formulas Or Fiddling公式或无关紧要

fiddling with摆弄；乱动；玩弄；弄虚作假

英汉例句

• she argues that better enforcement of the existing system would do more to inform the public of what is done in its name than fiddling with it.

  她提出相比于现有系统胡乱改造，加强管理对告知公众政府在以何为名做何事起到的作用更大。

• however, instead of doing your work, you are fiddling with miscellaneous things like checking email, social media, watching videos, surfing blogs and forums.

  然而你并没有加倍工作，反而去做些查收邮件、社会媒体、观看视频、浏览博客和论坛等繁杂的事情。

• the charming kroc crowed, 「now we will have a club over [franchise managers], and by god there will be no more pampering or fiddling with them」.

  极富魅力的克洛克洋洋得意地说「现在我们将成立特许经销商的俱乐部，上帝作证，他们中绝不会有人被偏袒或愚弄。」

• a little fiddling with the incoming image and even the blurriest picture snaps right into focus.

  一个极小的刚进入视野的影像，甚至最模糊的画面也被拍摄得很清晰。

• so... a driver's side blood pressure cuff might be a ways down the road… but some day soon—between fiddling with the radio, ac and your cell phone—you could be tweaking your vitals, too.

  所以，血压袖带很可能就是高血压司机上路的必需品了。但是，也许很快就会有一天，通过摆弄手中的电台、控制器以及手机，就可以调整你身体的各项指标。

• many people suspect that some governments are fiddling their inflation figures, and that the true rate is much higher than officially reported.

  许多人都猜测某些政府在操控本国的通胀数据，他们怀疑真实的通胀率要比官方报道的高很多。

• critics accuse china of fiddling its trade figures, because the value of its exports as measured by the importing country is always much bigger than what the chinese report.

  批评家指责中国乱报其外贸数字，这是由于由进口国报告的中国出口数字总是比中国政府报告的要高出很多。

• in this photo william looks slightly hesitant as can be seen in the way he’s fiddling with his fingers – one of the signature poses the prince adopts when he’s uncomfortable.

  在这张图片中，从威廉轻轻拨动的手指中可以看出他似乎在犹豫着什么——这个姿势通常会在他感到不舒服的时候表现出来。

• fiddling with inflation-linking is a stealthy way of cutting benefits but would hit the poorest hardest, since they have no alternative source of income.

  玩转通货膨胀是削减福利的秘密方法，因为穷人没有其他途径增加收入，他们遭受的打击会最严重。

• tocquevillian liberals believe that governments should encourage better citizenship. economics liberals distrust fiddling with markets, however worthy the goal.

  持托克维尔思想的开明政治家认为,政府有责任鼓励公民提高自身的素质.而一些思想活跃的经济学家则认为,通过市场的手段来达到这个目的虽然不一定可靠,但还是值得一试.或许综合运用这两种手段,才更具战略意义.但在双方据理力争之前, 很有必要先来读一读布劳根先生的这本书.

• if his theory is correct, fiddling with the composition of box interiors could be a good way for the wine industry to control the concentration of unpleasant chemicals.

  如果他的理论正确，通过变包装的内层成分来控制令人不悦化学物质浓度，对于葡萄酒业而言是一个好方法。

• one practical problem you might run into while fiddling with multiple browsers is window clutter.

  处理多个浏览器时可能遇到的一个实际问题就是如何避免窗口混乱。

• but reading experts question whether fiddling with the parameters of books ultimately degrades the act of reading.

  但是阅读专家质疑过于纠缠书的特性，是否最终会损害阅读本身。

• she took my kids into the garden and, on returning, found me fiddling with her cd player.

  她把我的孩子们带到花园里，等她回来时发现我在玩弄她的cd机。

• instead of fiddling about with their own arcane procedures, they should enlist lay authorities to help them clean up and obey the law, just like everybody else.

  除了他们自己无聊的占卜步骤，他们可以列出的管理层中的门外汉，进行内部换人，并且像其他人一样遵守法律。

• by fiddling with the rates at which benefits are withdrawn from those who find work, mr duncan smith hopes it will always pay to take a job.

  通过调整对已获取工作的人的取消福利的比例，邓肯?史密斯先生希望社会福利总是用来鼓励人们去找一份工作。

• this is all very cool and easy to use; and, best of all, you can alter your configuration later to suit your needs without fiddling with your code.

  这是非常容易使用的；最好的是，您可以在以后改变配置文件以适应自己的需要，而无需改动代码。

• nearly a third said that fiddling expenses was acceptable, for example because of below-inflation pay rises and other miserliness by employers.

  有将近三分之一的人称虚报开支是可以接受的，比如出于雇主加薪低于通货膨胀率和其它贪婪的行为。

• have you ever seen a sales guy not fiddling with or talking on his blackberry phone?

  你看过哪位推销员没有摆弄他的黑莓手机或是没有通过黑莓手机讲话吗？

• i had no idea, " said travel agent xiao wang, fiddling with a shop display ipad.

  我不知道。”正在商店里展示的ipad上拉小提琴的旅游代理人小王说道。

• it is the notion of fiddling that is the key.

  摆弄（fiddling）的想法才是关键。

相似词

foolish愚蠢的；傻的

frivolous无聊的；轻佻的；琐碎的

incidental附带事件；偶然事件；杂项

inconsequential不重要的；不合理的；不合逻辑的

inconsiderable不足取的；不值得考虑的；琐屑的

insignificant无关紧要的

little(Little)人名；(英)利特尔

Mickey Mouse米老鼠

minor未成年人；小调；辅修科目

minute分，分钟；片刻，一会儿；备忘录，笔记；会议记录

negligible微不足道的，可以忽略的

nugatory无价值的；琐碎的；无效的；无法律效力的

slight轻视，忽略；怠慢

small小件物品；矮小的人

trifling浪费，閑聊（trifle的现在分词）

trivial不重要的，琐碎的；琐细的

unimportant不重要的；琐碎的

相反词

big(Big)人名；(土)比格

consequential间接的；结果的；重要的；随之发生的；自傲的

eventful多事的；重要的；多变故的；重大的

important重要的，重大的；有地位的；有权力的

major[人类] 成年人；主修科目；陆军少校

material材料；用具；（有指明特征的）人才；素材；曲目；布料

meaningful有意义的；意味深长的

momentous重要的；重大的

significant象征；有意义的事物

substantial本质；重要材料

weighty重的；重大的；严肃的