if a public speaker (like a professor, for example) is all the time fiddling with a pencil, or with his glasses, while he is talking to you, he is telling you quite clearly that he is nervous.

如果一位公开演讲的人，在给你们作报告时，他老是在摆弄一支铅笔或者是摆弄他的眼镜，那么，他这是很清楚告诉你，他心情很紧张。

although commercial outfits such as manufacturing plants were the first customers, carrier kept fiddling with his invention.

尽管像制造厂等商业机构已经成了第一批客户，carrier仍不停地鼓捣他的发明。

on the fourth my hands are fiddling with my ears.

关于第四次，我的手被玩弄我的耳朵。

governments have been fiddling with constituencies since 1832, when reformers swept away 「rotten」 boroughs with handfuls of voters, and enfranchised new industrial cities.

自1832年以来，英国政府就不停地捣鼓选区事宜，一会儿撤掉腐化不堪的自治郡以及人浮于事的选民，一会儿赋予新型工业城市选举权。

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。」

in this sense, we are nowhere near a 「complete」 solution which will not need fiddling with again.

从这方面来说，我们永远无法「完成」解决方案而不再需要任何调整。

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？

some, including their whip in the house, were caught fiddling with their blackberrys.

包括其众议院领袖在内的有些共和党人一直不停的摆弄着自己的黑莓手机；

while you「re in there fiddling with the databases, you may as well create the tables that blahg will use in the beginning.

摆弄数据库的同时，您也可以创建blahg将在开头使用的表。

i turn on the engine impatiently. i」m fiddling with the radio when i hear something.

我不耐烦地开着发动机，调试电台听着一些东西。

look for scratching or fiddling with clothing.

关注抓挠或拨弄衣服的动作。

he sat nervously fiddling with his spectacles.

他坐在那儿紧张地拨弄他的眼镜。

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 child kept fiddling with his food.

这孩子老是把食物弄着玩。

after more than ten years of fiddling with their set-up, dr hines「s team has succeeded in determining that the electron is round to within one part in a million billion.

在摆弄了10几年实验装置以后，hinds博士的团队已经成功证明在千万亿分之一的精度下，电子的确是「完美」的球形。

sophia: stop fiddling with your shirt!

苏菲亚：停止拨弄你的衬衫！

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。

in contrast to 「luvcview」 it initializes the new logitech commands for pan/tilt/focus without the need for a helper library or fiddling with xml files, udev rules etc.

与「luvcview」不同的是，他初始化罗技他们家的摄像头时用pan/tilt/focus命令即可。而无需库的帮忙、摆弄xml文件或者udev规则（设备文件在系统中出现的方式）。

a claim that 「only india「s 59 dollar-billionaires」 are prospering rings false: anyway, many in the audience are too busy fiddling with their mobile phones to pay it much heed.

「印度只有59个亿万富翁」春风得意，这个断言绝对是个伪命题：不管怎样，很多听众忙于玩弄手机，对此不太关心。

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。

a lean, lonely figure roaming through his museum or fiddling with his old music boxes, he has lived five years of depression without apparent change.

依然是那个在他的博物馆里閑逛的瘦削、孤独的身影，或者是摆弄他的旧音乐盒，五年的大萧条时期没给他带来什么显着的变化。

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。

mr sarkozy bores easily, tapping his feet, twitching or fiddling with his mobile phone when others speak.

萨科奇常有厌烦情绪，从他和别人说话时不断轻跺的脚和不时摆弄自己的手机就可以看出来。

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.

instead they look at fiddling with university admissions.

他们开始关注对大学入学条件的调整。

these are mostly 「easy things」 like fiddling with aerodynamics or pumping coolant 「on demand」, says hans rathgeber, bmw」s head of vehicle architecture.

照宝马的汽车架构主管汉斯·拉特·格贝尔说法，这里大多数诸如鼓捣鼓捣空气动力学或即时泵入冷冻剂这种小改动。

by fiddling with currencies, however, the adjustments needed are being deflected.

而玩弄汇率的把戏只会使我们的调整措施偏离了正确的方向。