用法学习: 1. Amy: All right. Don't get upset, but, an earlier appointment opened up for Leonard and he's getting the surgery right now. Sheldon: I see. Take me to Leonard. Amy: Just go to work, he'll be fine. Penny: We had a really nice swim. Sheldon: Oh, stop it. I assume this medical centre's already treated the burns on your bottom from the recent pants fire. Penny: 'Cause I'm a liar, liar? Sheldon: That's for the fire marshal to determine. Penny: You had to tell him? Amy: He wore me down 逼的没有办法, 苦苦哀求 ( wear down I. to make someone gradually lose their energy or confidence. They were worn down by the stress of feeding five children. Slowly he wore his opponent down. to overcome gradually by persistent effort. his sheer persistence 坚持不懈 in wearing down the opposition. II. to make something gradually disappear or become thinner by using or rubbing it. The old stone steps had been worn down by years of use. ). And I was distracted, he has on extra baby powder today. Sheldon: Is he okay? Penny: He's still in surgery. Sheldon: Very well. Penny: He's gonna be all right. That is sticky. 另一段: Penny: Okay, okay, so Amy's cool, Sheldon's cool. Tell me about Leonard.
Bert: Who? Penny: Leonard Hofstadter. Bert: Oh, him. I guess he's all
right. Apparently he tricked some hot girl into marrying him.
Penny: That's me, I'm her. You know, he didn't trick me, he just wore
me down 一点点融化冰山. Bert: It makes sense you two are friends. I mean, hot girls
always stick together.
Amy: And you thought this wasn't gonna be a great party. Penny: You
know, I had no idea Caltech is exactly like my high school. Amy: Well,
it's not exactly like it. We're all extremely smart. Penny: Wow, you popular girls are mean. 另一段: Awkward guy: But how did you get her to go out with you? Leonard: Well, she moved in across the hall 对门. Penny: And he started to slowly wear me down. Leonard: Like a river carves a canyon. Penny: Yeah, except the river kept showing me his Pokémon cards. Red-haired guy: Ready to go? Awkward guy: Hang on. This guy's telling me how he got the Serial Ape-ist girl to marry him. Red-haired guy: This guy? But he's wearing a change maker. Penny: I think it's hot. Leonard: That's right. I'm her change daddy. 2. Amy: I meant why are they folded? But whatever. Ooh, what's this? Penny: That, believe it or not, is my prom dress. Bernadette: Wow, you still have it? I just assumed it was balled up 团成一团, 揉成球 in the corner of a barn ( ball up I. If you balls up a task or activity, you do it very badly, making a lot of mistakes. [British, informal, rude] You have single-handedly ballsed up the best opportunity we've had! I have no intention of letting you balls it up. II. to become a small round shape, or to make something into a small round shape She balled her fists angrily. pick up the ball and run with it to take responsibility for getting something done, especially after someone else has tried and failed. ) somewhere. Penny: What kind of teenager did you think I was? Bernadette: Slutty. Amy: Easy. Penny: The word is popular. 3. Howard: Knock, knock. Bernadette: Hi. Raj: Hey. What brings you by? Bernadette: Oh, muffin much. Howard: Told you, not funny. Bernadette: He's just not laughing because he's feeling blueberry. Tough crowd 真难伺候. Raj: I'm sorry. This is very sweet. Thanks. Howard: So, how you doing? Raj: Better. I guess the news just hit me a lot harder than I expected. Bernadette: Well, of course. I would be devastated if my parents split up. Howard: Why? Your father barely speaks to your mother. Bernadette: Well, at least he stuck around 没走, 留下来了, 在身边, not like your dad, who just took off. Howard: As you can see, we're here to cheer you up. 4. sweet spot 最佳点, 最舒服的位置, 最佳位置, INFORMAL I. the point or area on a bat, club, or racket at which it makes most effective contact with the ball. "a bigger sweet spot forgives off-centre hits". II. an optimum point or combination of factors or qualities. "the market may have reached its sweet spot, with prices high enough to encourage sellers but still low enough to promise a good return". Raj: What am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to choose between Emily and Lucy? Howard: Why do you have to choose? Date both of them. Raj: I can't date two women at once. Zero women, that‘s my sweet spot. Penny: Unless you’re sleeping with one of them, seeing other people isn't a big deal. Steph: So, we're all standing around looking at the post-op x ray and there it is, clear as day, right in the guy's chest cavity, one of my earrings. Leonard: Oh, my god, what did you do? Steph: What do you think I did? I discreetly slipped off the other earring, put it in my pocket and then got the hell out of there! Sheldon (arriving): I have a bone to pick with you, sir. Leonard: Oo-oo-oh! Steph: Hi, Sheldon. Sheldon: Hi, Stephanie. I'm sorry I'm late, but your companion left the most indecipherable invitation. Leonard: What invitation? Sheldon: We're going to the movies. What movie? What theatre? What time? If you were trying to make it impossible to locate you, you couldn't have done a better job. Leonard: Oh, clearly I could have. Sheldon: It took me nearly 20 minutes to go through the browser history on your computer to see what movie times you looked up. Wait here, I'll find us seats. Steph: No, no, we have seats. Leonard: Not the right seats. (Sheldon moves around the theatre sitting in various seats and shouting "Ha!") Steph: What is he doing? Leonard: He's finding the acoustic sweet spot. Steph: Does he always do this? Leonard: Sometimes he brings a toy xylophone. I am really sorry about this. Steph: No, it's fine. you know, he's sweet. Sheldon: My apologies, you've been sitting in it all along. Leonard, you want to slide over one 错一个座位? Leonard: No, just sit here. Sheldon: Oh, yeah, this is it. Leonard: What is going on? Sheldon: Oh. Uh, I need to keep my anxiety at the right level, so I'm using Darth Vader, the Joker, and Godzilla's roar to keep me in that sweet spot. Uh, I tried including Taylor Swift in the mix, but turns out I love her. Leonard: Well, at least listen to it through headphones. I'm trying to sleep. Good night. Sheldon: Boy, Taylor was right, haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. 5. end/finish/begin etc (something) on a high note 急流勇退 to end, finish something etc in a successful way The team finished their tour on a high note in Barbados. The team face considerable pressure to finish on a high note. snoop 探听, 打探, 探头探脑的 I. to secretly try to get information that someone would not want you to have. She's been snooping around asking questions. Somebody went snooping through my desk while I was gone. II. to watch someone secretly in order to learn about their personal life or business. snoop on: I hear they use detectives to snoop on employees. Howard: You know what, you sound busy, I'm gonna let you go. Raj: Dude, the whole front came off. Now she's gonna know I was snooping. Bernadette: What's happening? Howard: Raj was snooping through Emily's drawers and broke one. Bernadette: Aw. I'm gonna miss her. Well, maybe this is what you get for snooping. Emily: So, the first time I leave you alone, you snoop on me? Raj: You've never snooped around my apartment? Emily: No. Raj: Come on, think back 回想一下. It would really help if you had. Emily: I can't believe you don't trust me. 6. cruisin for a bruisin = cruisin for a beating 找死, 找打 Hey, that's Tor's stuff, you cruising for a beating or something? go a long way = go far = go the distance If you say that someone will go a long way, you mean that they will be very successful. To achieve considerable success. All parents hope that their children will go a long way in their lives. The moment I met him I knew he would go a long way. a little (of something) goes a long way spoken used to say that only a small amount of something is needed or has a great effect. A little kindness goes a long way. A bit of patience goes along way. If you say that something goes a long way towards doing a particular thing, you mean that it is an important factor in achieving that thing. Although not a cure, it goes a long way towards making the patient's life tolerable. To be adequate or helpful for a significant amount of time. This new law will go a long way in addressing this issue. Thank you for your generous donation; I'm sure it will go a long way. go the distance (idiomatic, by extension) to manage to continue until the end of a competition. To have the endurance to see a difficult, sustained challenge to its natural end without faltering. If you go the distance in a race or sports competition, you continue running or playing until the end of the race or match. More riders than ever are now determined to go the distance. I. to continue doing what is necessary until you achieve your goal She's a singer with the talent and determination to go the distance. II. to compete in a race or game until the end, continuing to try to win. Do you think he's fit enough to go the distance? 7. 加油站应该付钱后再挪车, 而不是加油挪车付钱: dawdle [ˈdɔd(ə)l] 磨蹭, 不慌不忙的, 不着急不着慌的, 拖拖拉拉的, 拖延, 拖时间, 磨磨唧唧的, 磨磨蹭蹭的. to go somewhere, or to do something, so slowly that people become annoyed with you. If someone is inching their car closer and closer I dawdle, take my time and give them a smile and wave as I slowly return to my car. If you dawdle, you spend more time than is necessary going somewhere. Eleanor will be back any moment, if she doesn't dawdle. They dawdled arm in arm past the shopfronts. If you dawdle over something, you spend more time than is necessary doing something. He got fed up as bank staff dawdled over cashing him a cheque. ...pals who dawdle over coffee. Drivers should not use the [petrol] service station forecourt as a rat run. rat run 小道, 近道 a minor, typically residential street used by drivers during peak periods to avoid congestion on main roads. "our road was used as a rat run between two main roads". Rat running or rodent running or cut-through driving is the practice by motorists of using residential side streets or any unintended short cut such as a parking lot, delivery service lane or cemetery road instead of the intended main road in urban or suburban areas. clear run 畅通无阻 a situation in which you can continue without anyone or anything stopping your progress. Her opponent's withdrawal gives her a clear run for the nomination. I had a clear run to the work this morning. close-run 势均力敌的, 难分伯仲的 won or decided by a very small distance, or number of points, votes, etc.: a close-run competition/contest/decision/race. It was a close-run thing and Millar had to endure a five-minute wait before the judges decided that he had won. run-of-the-mill 普普通通的 A run-of-the-mill person or thing is very ordinary, with no special or interesting features. [disapproval] I was just a very average run-of-the-mill kind of student. For many they clearly represent an alternative to run-of-the-mill estate cars. run the show If you say that someone is running the show, you mean that they are in control or in charge of a situation. They made it clear who is now running the show. There's some serious problems with the way the state's leadership has been running the show. 8. landscape noun I. [countable] an area of land that is beautiful to look at or that has a particular type of appearance. a green, rural landscape. the rugged landscape of the high sierra (mountain range 山脉 in california). The landscape is everything you can see when you look across an area of land, including hills, rivers, buildings, trees, and plants. ...Arizona's desert landscape. We moved to Northamptonshire and a new landscape of hedges and fields. II. a painting of an area of land. A landscape is a painting which shows a scene in the countryside. an exhibition of Paul Gunn's most recent landscapes 山水画. III. [singular] the main features of a situation or activity. The 1990s saw the political landscape radically reshaped. A landscape is all the features that are important in a particular situation. June's events completely altered the political landscape 版图. ...a landscape of unparalleled ignorance. IV. [uncountable] a way of arranging a page so that its long sides are at the top and bottom. The other way of arranging a page, with the short sides at the top and bottom, is called portrait. landscape verb. to make a piece of land more attractive by adding plants, paths, or other features. If an area of land is landscaped, it is changed to make it more attractive, for example by adding streams or ponds and planting trees and bushes. The gravel pits have been landscaped and planted to make them attractive to wildfowl. They had landscaped their property with trees, shrubs, and lawns. ...a smart suburb of landscaped gardens and wide streets. The landowner insisted on a high standard of landscaping. landscape gardening the profession or activity of landscaping. landscaping I. the development of a piece of land by adding plants and other features to make it more attractive. suburban homes with a lot of landscaping. II. the profession or activity of making an area of land or a garden more attractive by planting trees and adding special features. Someone who does this is called a landscaper. a blot on the landscape 煞风景的建筑 something that makes a place look less attractive, for example an ugly building. a blot 污点 on something something that spoils someone's reputation, or spoils the appearance of something. This is a serious blot on your career. blot your copybook to do something that spoils your good reputation, for example at work. blot up to remove liquid from the surface of something using a piece of paper or cloth. Blot up any excess lipstick with a paper tissue. blot out I. to cover something so that you can no longer see it. Dark clouds overhead had blotted out 遮住, 遮挡 the sun. II. to forget something unpleasant, or to make someone forget an unpleasant memory or feeling. She tried hard to blot out the bitter memories of the divorce.
The politician S1E2: 0. Ray the technician's full name is Ray Callawalich. He's been working at the lab at the children's hospital for the last six years, which, as far as I can tell, is the longest he's held down any job, though he owes them his loyalty because they seem unperturbed 不在乎的, 不在意的, 不介意的 by the fact that he was arrested for wire fraud in the late 90s and never charged. Wire fraud? It gets grosser. He has all of four friends on Facebook, two are Infinity and her grandmother, the other two are Legoland and Mrs. Fields Cookies. And he posted eight hours ago that he's, quote, "Excited," but he misspelled excited, "to go to Atlantis," misspelled Atlantis, "with my dear fiend Infinity and her grandmother," end quote. And he tried tagging Infinity, but he ended up tagging an Infinity SUV in the background. What's Atlantis? Wait, are you serious? Oh, of course, you're too rich. It's amazing, it's like the best resort ever. That is, if you like waterslides, but come on, I mean, they have this waterslide that goes underwater with, like, sharks and stuff. Anyway, don't you think it's weird that this dimwitted lab technician would be, like, best friends with a patient at his hospital? You have a theory? Munchausen by proxy (MSbP also known as Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another) 通过让别人装病 ( Munchausen's syndrome 夸张行为, 夸大其词, 假病, 装病博取同情, 装病博眼球 [ˈmʌntʃaʊzənz] a condition in which someone pretends to have a serious illness in order to get treatment and sympathy from medical workers. Trisha has Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP), a recognised mental illness that sees caregivers – usually mothers – fabricate or exaggerate illness in a child. "She would withhold his food and I believe she was also overdosing him on asthma and anti-seizure medication to induce symptoms," Mrs Walker, a 57-year-old Californian said. "Eventually I started seeing red flags, little things not adding up, but it wasn't until my second grandchild Arianna started getting sick that my eyes were fully opened." Fabricating illness in her second child would be Trisha's downfall 露馅. Munchausen by Internet = MBI when people fake serious illness for themselves or their relatives on Internet forums, chatrooms, etc. Some psychiatrists have started using the term Münchausen by internet (MBI) to describe this behaviour. Munchausen: Baron (Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Münchhausen) 1720-97; Ger. soldier & adventurer known for his exaggerated tales of his exploits, esp. as collected by Rudolf Erich Raspe (1737-94), Ger. writer in England. ). She's making Infinity sick. Oh, come on. Grandmother's on the take (on the fiddle) and co-opted a dimwitted lab technician, bribing him with vacations and cruises and God knows what else so she can tinker with 篡改 Infinity's medical records. This seems impossible to prove. It's totally possible to prove. We host a blood drive, get a sample, test it independently. Don't look at me like that. We'll make it a campaign event, a statement saying that ignorance about HIV has no place in our society and anyone at our school who wants to can donate blood, including gays and Haitians. I'll set it up, it'll be a slam dunk. There aren't any Haitians at this school. There's one. Pierre. We'll nail down the gay vote and the Haitian vote. Literally the Haitian vote. That's right. One more thing, we don't tell James why we're doing the blood drive. Why not? He's trigger happy about dumping Infinity. This might send him over the edge. He'd probably end up firing her himself. Maybe this could be nothing. Maybe this guy's just a wall-eyed ( I. having one or both eyes with a whitish iris or white, opaque cornea. II. having eyes that turn outward, showing more white than is normal, because of divergent strabismus. III. having leukoma of the cornea. IV. having large, glossy eyes. said of some fishes. V. having or characterized by crazed, glaring eyes. ) creep who likes hanging out with teenagers and their grandmothers at theme parks and it ends there. Until we know for sure, we keep this between us, okay? Okay. Great. 1. blood drive 鲜血大会 An activity, usually charitable, in which persons are requested to donate blood, either to maintain a general supply or in response to a specific shortage or emergency. A blood donation occurs when a person voluntarily has blood drawn and used for transfusions and/or made into biopharmaceutical medications by a process called fractionation (separation of whole-blood components). Donation may be of whole blood, or of specific components directly (the latter called apheresis). Blood banks often participate in the collection process as well as the procedures that follow it. An event where donors come to donate allogeneic blood is sometimes called a 'blood drive' or a 'blood donor session'. These can occur at a blood bank, but they are often set up at a location in the community such as a shopping center, workplace, school, or house of worship. food drive 食物捐赠会 A charity event dedicated to collecting food for the poor, especially to assist their ability to hold a feast on a holiday such as Christmas or Thanksgiving. toy drive A charity event dedicated to collecting Christmas presents for poor children. 2. Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSP) -- or Munchausen by proxy -- is a psychological disorder marked by attention-seeking behavior by a caregiver through those who are in their care. MSP is a relatively rare behavioral disorder. It affects a primary caretaker, often the mother. The person with MSP gains attention by seeking medical help for exaggerated or made-up symptoms of a child in his or her care. As health care providers strive to identify what's causing the child's symptoms, the deliberate actions of the mother or caretaker can often make the symptoms worse. The person with MSP does not seem to be motivated by a desire for any type of material gain. While health care providers are often unable to identify the specific cause of the child's illness, they may not suspect the mother or caretaker of doing anything to harm the child. In fact the caregiver often appears to be very loving and caring and extremely distraught over her child's illness. People with MSP may create or exaggerate a child's symptoms in several ways. They may simply lie about symptoms, alter tests (such as contaminating a urine sample), falsify medical records, or they may actually induce symptoms through various means, such as poisoning, suffocating, starving, and causing infection. Factitious ( [fækˈtɪʃəs] I. 人为的. 人造的. artificial rather than natural. factitious demands created by the mass media. II. not genuine; sham. factitious enthusiasm. ) disorder imposed on another (FDIA), also known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP), is a condition where a caregiver creates the appearance of health problems in another person, typically their child. This may include injuring the child or altering test samples. They then present the person as being sick or injured. This occurs without a specific benefit to the caregiver. Permanent injury or death of the child may occur. The cause is unknown. The primary motive may be to gain attention.[4] Risk factors include pregnancy related complications, and a mother who was abused as a child or has factitious disorder imposed on self. Diagnosis is supported when removing the child from the caregiver results in improvement of symptoms or video surveillance without the knowledge of the caregiver finds concerns. Those affected have been subjected to a form of physical abuse and medical neglect. Management may require putting the child in foster care. Therapy may help when the caregiver realizes they need help. How commonly it occurs is unknown, however, it appears to be relatively rare. More than 95% of cases involve a person's mother. The condition was first named in 1977 by Roy Meadow. The presence of the disorder may indicate criminal behavior. 3. slam dunk I. If you say that something is a slam dunk, you mean that a success or victory will be easily achieved. [informal] So it's an easy decision. It's a slam dunk. II. In basketball, a slam dunk is a shot in which a player jumps up and forces the ball through the basket. ...a series of spectacular slam dunks. 4. In that moment, when all I could feel was gratitude for the gift that is life, I saw him sitting there alone performing this simple, loving gesture, and I knew I had been wrong about him all this time. He tried telling me about how Martin and Luther had behaved during my coma, but I didn't believe him. How could I? My own sons? So he hatched a plan to prove it to me. No! He laid the trap with the boys. The hopes of my recovery would be the bait. You're upset. My goodness. Well, of course you would be. Our sons tried to murder me. Honestly, that's not what's bumming me out ( make someone feel annoyed, upset, or disappointed. to make someone feel sad or disappointed: That comment just bummed me out. "I was assigned the day shift, which bummed me out"). Patricide [ˈpætrɪsaɪd] 弑父 is so on-brand 符合特质的, 符合个性的 (helping a company present the image of itself and its products that it wants to present. conforming to the image or identity that a particular company seeks to associate with its products or services. "ensure that your content is relevant and on-brand". It is better to recruit people who are naturally on-brand, than spend time and energy realigning them with the brand goals. We have an on-brand internal culture. off-brand I. not having a well-known brand name (= the name given to a product by the company that makes it): Many teenagers wouldn't consider off-brand sneakers. Your basic computer operating system is compatible with almost any piece of off-brand software you download. II. not helping a company present the image of itself and its products that it wants to present: One of the likely times to be off-brand is when customers voice complaints. They will help your staff develop a better sense of what it means to be on-brand or off-brand.) for the twins. I don't think they would've been able to go through with it. Martin certainly wouldn't have been able to. Mmm. It's Payton. That kind of duplicity [duˈplɪsəti] ( dishonest behavior that is intended to trick someone. If you accuse someone of duplicity, you mean that they are deceitful. [formal] Malcolm believed he was guilty of duplicity in his private dealings.). It's a terrible quality 不是好事, 不是好品质 in a man. Payton saved me, and I'm gonna make sure he's repaid. But I have conditions. You will have to end it with Brigitte. buttmunch (slang, derogatory) Term of abuse 骂人话, 骂人用词. A contemptible fellow, used as an insult. One who is stupid or irritating. Ugh, don't even listen to that guy, he's such a buttmunch. a despised male. (Usually objectionable.) You dumb butt-munch! Why did you do that? A Butt-munch is someone who wears trousers so tight that it appears as if the material is getting munched up between their ass-cheeks on the way to be swallowed up by their anus. A Butt-munch is also an idiot, general term of abuse used to describe a fool. A Buttmunch is an arse-lick or a lickspittle. A person who sucks up to people in positions of power for personal gain or simply to ingratiate themselves. 5. I'm sorry, I don't understand. How did I get off of the waitlist? Have people that got in, they dropped out? Or ? No. Are you familiar with the Slavic languages department? Our research has determined that Slavic languages, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, for example, are going to be an area of value for our graduates in the near future. And that is where you come in. An extended department is not an inexpensive undertaking. We need to hire staff, create new software, curriculum, uh, build a new facility. I see. So, you would like me to pay for that as my price of admission? Well, your family. We assume they're still in charge of all funds. They've been extremely generous in the past. Your brothers were not nearly the applicants you are. Gentlemen, I'm sorry, I can't do that. I need to be accepted on my merits. This is not the first time this sort of thing's been done. No, I know. Right? Everyone knows. When you arrive on campus with the same last name as one of the buildings, people can do the math. Well, if the notoriety is a problem, we can make the donation anonymous. No, that only works if you live a life without distinction 平淡的人生, 默默无闻的人生. I'm going to be running for president. This will be weaponized against me. Payton Hobart wasn't good enough then, and he's not good enough now. You have a week to reconsider. You're not the only applicant on the waitlist with money. Just the one with the most of it. 6. It's a pleasure to see you again, Mr. Hobart, though a phone call certainly would have been sufficient. Well, it seemed to me that this warranted 足够, 够得上, 值得 meeting face-to-face. Uh It's a bit of an understatement to say that circumstances have changed for me. I've recently been made the sole benefactor of my family's fortune. Upon my father's death, I will inherit several billion dollars and become one of the richest people in the country. Well, that's wonderful news. Does that mean that you have come to a decision with regard to our offer? Oh, so, you mean, your offer allowing me to buy my way into Harvard? Oh, well, we don't look at it that way. This is just how these things are done. We are arguably the most prestigious institution in the world. Full stop. A Harvard education can hardly be quantified. You guys, you've really screwed the pooch on this one. I beg your pardon? Well, if you had just accepted my application instead of extorting me, you would've gotten ten times that. Now, don't get me wrong, I do want a building on this campus with my name on it. About 500 yards from here on the north bank of the Charles, that's where I'm going to break ground 破土动工 on my presidential library. On the day that I become a private citizen after my second term in office. A second term that I will have won in a landslide. You see, gentlemen, I'm gonna be President of the United States. Now, I don't say that to impress you or to seem terribly precocious(A precocious child is very clever, mature, or good at something, often in a way that you usually only expect to find in an adult. Margaret was always a precocious child. She burst on to the world tennis scene as a precocious 14-year old. Despite her precocious talent for music and art, she failed both subjects at school. He was a precociously bright school boy.), I'm merely stating a fact. I will be president someday because I will stop at nothing. You're aware that I've been accepted at Yale, Stanford, and Princeton without pulling any strings or buying any buildings. So why not go to one of those schools? Well, see, now I really should be asking you that question, because the choice is gonna be up to you. Politics isn't about policies, a candidate is elected on a story. And the story I want to tell is that I went to Harvard. Now if you don't let me in on my merits and my merits alone, then the story I tell will be about how I was rejected from Harvard. And that's the story I'll tell when I'm dedicating my billion-dollar presidential library in Palo Alto. Or Princeton. Or New Haven. I'm serious. The choice is yours. You get to decide what my story will be. Honestly, I'll be fine either way.
tamper VS tinker VS fiddle (tinker 和 fiddle 在捣鼓东西上是一样的): 1. tamper with something 篡改, 非法动过 to touch something that you should not touch, and to change it in some way, often because you want to spoil it. If someone tampers with something, they interfere with it or try to change it when they have no right to do so. I don't want to be accused of tampering with the evidence. He found his computer had been tampered with. ...discovering a motive for a crime like product tampering. It was clear that someone had tampered with the computer. the possibility that evidence might be tampered with. 2. tinker I. 微调. 稍加改动. 修修补补. If you tinker with something, you make some small changes to it, in an attempt to improve it or repair it. I wish the government would stop tinkering with the health service. Instead of the Government admitting its error, it just tinkered with the problem. They tinkered with the engine. It is not enough to tinker at the edges; we must reconstruct the entire system. No amount of tinkering is going to improve matters. I'll just have a tinker with the TV and see if I can get it to work. to make small changes to something in order to improve or repair it. He spends hours tinkering around with car engines. Problems can arise when management structures are tinkered with. noun. I. In former times, a tinker was a person who did not have a fixed home, but travelled from place to place mending metal pots and doing other small repair jobs. in the past, a man who travelled from place to place repairing metal objects such as pans. II. British offensive an insulting word for a person who lives and travels around in a caravan. Some people refer to any traveller or gipsy, especially one who is Irish, as a tinker. III. British informal a young child who behaves badly. You tinker, Nicky, you shouldn't have done that. Don't be such a tinker. not give a tinker's cuss UK old-fashioned informal (US not give a tinker's damn) to not be interested in or worried about something or someone: I couldn't give a tinker's cuss about what they think. 3. fiddle I. 拨弄. 无聊的拨弄. If you fiddle with an object, you keep moving it or touching it with your fingers. Harriet fiddled with a pen on the desk. to touch or move something with many small quick movements of your fingers because you are bored, nervous, or concentrating on something else. fiddle with: She fiddled with her napkin, avoiding his eyes. II. If you fiddle with something, you change it in minor ways. She told Whistler that his portrait of her was finished and to stop fiddling with it. III. If you fiddle with a machine, you adjust it. He turned on the radio and fiddled with the knob until he got a talk show. to touch, move, or change something many times in order to improve it or make it work better Kay was fiddling with the radio dial. IV. If someone fiddles financial documents, they alter them dishonestly so that they get money for themselves. [British, informal] He's been fiddling the books. Stop fiddling your expenses account. to produce false results or records, in order to get money or other benefits. They all fiddle their taxes. fiddle the figures/books/accounts: They accuse the government of fiddling the unemployment figures. noun I. A fiddle is a dishonest action or scheme in which someone gets money for themselves. [British, informal] Police investigating a £10 million car insurance fiddle arrested 16 people yesterday. ...legitimate businesses that act as covers for tax fiddles. II. If something is a fiddle, it is quite difficult to do because it involves small or complicated objects. [British, informal] I found out how to fix the tray on–a bit of a fiddle. III. Some people call violins fiddles, especially when they are used to play folk music. Hardy as a young man played the fiddle at local dances. fiddle while Rome burns to be busy doing unimportant things when you should be dealing with an important problem. fit as a fiddle very fit He was as fit as a fiddle right up to the time he died. play second fiddle to someone to be less important or less powerful than someone else We played second fiddle to Portadown the entire match. on the fiddle If someone is on the fiddle, they get money by doing illegal or dishonest things. be on the take 受贿, 收贿 someone in an official position who is on the take is accepting bribes (=money in return for doing something wrong) It turned out the police officer was on the take. 4. tinker 的四个用例: a. 作为爱好喜欢捣鼓钟表 So, imagine that you're grandfather is, like, really really intensely interested in clocks, old antique clocks. So, he collects, maybe they're not always in mint condition, maybe they're not always perfect, they don't work very well, and he has no real training in how to repair these things, but all the same, he likes to play around with the clocks and the mechanisms in the clocks. He likes to fiddle with them. You could say, "He likes TO TINKER WITH his clocks. He likes TINKERING WITH his clocks. He likes to go and have A TINKER with his clocks on weekends." You know, it's his hobby, just to play with the clocks, to adjust them. Maybe some of them are broken and he tries to repair them. He likes TO TINKER WITH clocks. b. 喜欢捣鼓汽车 Another example could be that you are a mechanic and you love building cars. So, you may not necessarily be a mechanic in a sense that it is your career, but say you're just… It's your hobby. You've always loved cars, you love building cars from scratch, you love making the engines and then finally getting the car on the road and going for a drive. It's your passion. You've got a garage at home with all your tools on the walls, you know, you've got oil pans on the ground to catch the oil if it starts leaking from the cars. Any time that you go into the garage to build your car, to try and repair the cars, to fiddle with the engine, to make adjustments, any time you go in there and have a play, have a fiddle, you could say that you're having A TINKER. So, there's the noun, to have A TINKER. You're TINKERING WITH the car, you're having A TINKER WITH the car, the engine, parts of the car, whatever it is that you're fiddling with. You could say you're having A TINKER WITH it. Or you could use it as a verb and you could say "I am TINKERING WITH the car. I am TINKERING WITH the engine. I'm TINKERING WITH the parts. I'm having a play. I'm having a fiddle." c. 机器坏了, 捣鼓洗碗机, 试图修理 The third example could be that say, you're at home, you're trying to cook one day and you got the dishes in the dishwasher running. They're cleaning, the water's going inside the dishwasher and all of a sudden you hear some clunking and then the dishwasher stops working. And your dad runs out and he's like, "Ah! I got this. I'll fix this. It's fine, it's fine!" He gets in behind the dishwasher, you know, (he) pulls it out. (He) tries to get in there and have a fiddle to see if he can fix the dishwasher and get it to keep working again obviously. Maybe he wants to do this because he wants to save money and not have to pay for a repairman to come out, because it's expensive to pay a repairman to come out to fix the dishwasher. Maybe he's afraid he's going to be told, "You're going to have to buy a new dishwasher. This one's kaput, it's broken." And so, he gets in behind the dishwasher and he has A TINKER or he's TINKERING AWAY behind the dishwasher. He's trying to repair things, he's trying to find the problem, he's having a fiddle with the dishwasher, he's playing around, he's adjusting things, he's hoping that he finds the fault or the problem but ultimately he has no skill when it comes to repairing dishwashers, and it's a clumsy kind of effort to try and fix it with no real result. And so, that's when you can say, "He's TINKERING AWAY" as he's doing it, "He's TINKERING AWAY" or "He's having A TINKER behind the dishwasher trying to fix it." SO, that's example number three, TO TINKER WITH the dishwasher or to have A TINKER WITH the dishwasher. d. 政府不断的修改健保计划 So, the fourth example that I've got here is, imagine that your government is trying to set up a really nice healthcare system. And so, it implements some kind of strategy initially to try and improve the health care system of the country, but it's unsatisfied with the initial setup and it keeps making changes to how the healthcare system that they have implemented is setup. You know, how much things cost, how much funding it's getting, how many people are hired and working in this area, whatever it is. If they keep making changes, in terms of this it's not a machine, it's not a device or a gadget, it's a system, some kind of setup that is not necessarily a physical thing. If they keep making those adjustments, they keep playing around with how it's setup, they keep fiddling with it, you could say, "They're TINKERING WITH it." So, they're playing with it, they're trying to fix it, they don't really know what they're doing ultimately, they're just trying to make changes and then hope that things work better or that they repair, that they get better, that they work more efficiently. So, then you could say that the government is TINKERING WITH their healthcare system strategy. They're having A TINKER with it, they're playing with it, they're not really sure what they're doing, it's a little unskillful, it's a little clumsy. And so, they're having A TINKER WITH it. tinker away at something: TO TINKER AWAY AT something. I haven't looked up the specific reason that English speakers use AWAY. And so, at the moment when I try and explain this it's just off the top of my head, I'm just thinking of it as I make this video. But I think whenever you do something and then have a AWAY after the verb, so if you're WORKING AWAY, if you're RUNNING AWAY, not in the sense of escaping but you're running a lot, it's that idea of that you're in the process of doing it. So, if you're TINKERING AWAY WITH something it means that when someone says you're TINKERING AWAY WITH it, you're in the process of doing it right then and there. So, when someone's saying that you're literally doing it, you're in the process of TINKERING AWAY. So, it means you're TINKERING AWAY. So, what else is another example? I'm WORKING AWAY AT my podcast at the moment. I'm WORKING AWAY, I'm TALKING AWAY, 'cause I'm currently talking. If I'm TINKERING AWAY, if I was fiddling with the camera and trying to do stuff right now in the video you could say I was TINKERING AWAY WITH the camera, WITH the microphone. So, that's that sort of idea of you're literally doing it as we speak, you're in the process of doing it. That is when you'll add AWAY after verbs like TO TINKER AWAY, TO WORK AWAY, TO TALK AWAY, TO PLAY AWAY, TO RUN AWAY. In that sense, it means to be doing it right then and there.
