fiddling

英 [ˈfɪdlɪŋ]

美 [ˈfɪdlɪŋ]

adj.  琐碎的; 繁琐的
v.  (尤指厌烦或紧张地)不断摸弄，不停摆弄; 篡改; 伪造; 对…做手脚; 拉小提琴
fiddle的现在分词

现在分词：fiddling　

TEM8

BNC.33031 / COCA.31166

牛津词典

adj.

• 琐碎的；繁琐的
  small, unimportant and often annoying

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 诈骗;伪造账目
  Fiddlingis the practice of getting money dishonestly by altering financial documents.
  1. Salomon's fiddling is likely to bring big trouble for the firm.
     萨洛蒙伪造账目可能会给公司带来***烦。
• (尤指民乐的)小提琴演奏
  Violin playing, especially in folk music, is sometimes referred to asfiddling.
• ADJ-GRADED 麻烦的;繁琐的
  You can describe something asfiddlingif it is small, unimportant, or difficult to do.
  1. ...the daunting amount of fiddling technical detail.
     令人生畏的大量繁琐的技术细节

英英释义

adj

• (informal) small and of little importance
  1. a fiddling sum of money
  2. a footling gesture
  3. our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
  4. a little (or small) matter
  5. a dispute over niggling details
  6. limited to petty enterprises
  7. piffling efforts
  8. giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
  Synonym:footlinglilliputianlittlenigglingpiddlingpifflingpettypicayunetrivial

双语例句

• She was fiddling about with a pencil.
  她无意识地摆弄一支铅笔。
• Right now in Congress, they're fiddling around with the budget and so on
  此时在国会，他们正就预算案等等瞎折腾。
• Stop fiddling your expenses account.
  不要再在开支账户上动手脚了。
• He was fiddling about with the car engine.
  他在摆弄汽车发动机。
• He was fiddling with his keys while he talked to me.
  和我谈话时他不停地摆弄钥匙。
• He sat nervously fiddling with his spectacles.
  他坐在那里神经质地不断摆弄自己的眼镜。
• 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。
• 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。
• I spent about two hours just fiddling about.
  我闲荡了约有两个钟头。
• Salomon's fiddling is likely to bring big trouble for the firm.
  萨洛蒙伪造账目可能会给公司带来***烦。