| 词组 | tinker |
| 释义 | tinker When used with a preposition, tinker is most often found with with: • ... loved to tinker with what he considered infelicities in Keats's poems —Amy Lowell, John Keats, 1925 • Parliaments and synods may tinker as much as they please with their codes and creeds —George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903 • ... ingenious mechanics and engineers who tinkered with motor-propelled vehicles —Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Reporter, 30 Mar. 1954 • ... some psychologists are tinkering with a test of a sense of humor —William H. Whyte, Jr., The Organization Man, 1956 • ... employing scientists to tinker with people's genes —Times Literary Supp., 22 Oct. 1971 • He was still tinkering with the engine when recess ended —Russell Baker, Growing Up, 1982 A number of usage books of the early 20th century, beginning with Fowler 1907, prescribed tinker at, treating tinker with as an error based on faulty analogy with tamper with. The earliest evidence of tinker with in the OED, however, is from 1658, while tinker at is not attested until the 19th century. It may be that tinker at was the usual idiom at one time, but it now occurs extremely infrequently. Our files contain only a few examples of it, the most recent of which is from 1958. • He began to tinker at the wound in rather a clumsy way —Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, 1895 • ... of course, I was always tinkering at verse —The Autobiography of William Allen White, 1946 • ... has risen to become a full-fledged artist from being a five-year-old child tinkering at the piano — International Musician, July 1958 |
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