fiddle around

ˈfɪdəl əˈraʊnd
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Translation of fiddle around from English into Chinese

Phrasal verb

intr.
1.

waste time

UK
spend time doing unimportant things
UK
瞎混 xiā hùn闲逛 磨蹭 mó ceng
  • He likes to fiddle around instead of working.他喜欢瞎混而不是工作。
2.

manipulation

UK
manipulate or tamper with something
UK
摆弄 bǎi nòng捣鼓 dǎo gǔ
  • She fiddled around with the settings on her computer to improve its speed.她摆弄电脑的设置以提高速度
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Expressions with fiddle around: examples in English and translations in Chinese

瞎摆弄
He fiddled around with the settings for an hour without deciding what he wanted to change.

Synonyms and analogies of fiddle around in English

Examples of fiddle around in a sentence

  • He spent the afternoon fiddling around with his gadgets.
  • He likes to fiddle around with old radios.
  • Don't fiddle around with the lock, it's fragile.

Translations of "fiddle around" in Context ordered by category and frequency

Verb
摆弄v. - bǎi nòng

Don't let the intern fiddle around with the server settings unsupervised.

别让实习生一个人摆弄服务器设置。

He likes to fiddle around with the radio until he finds a good station.

他总爱摆弄收音机,调来调去,直到找到一个满意的电台。

He came there and he started to fiddle around with the touchpad.

他走过来,开始随意摆弄触控板。

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Other translations for fiddle around:

  • 鼓捣v.
  • 捣鼓v.
  • 闲逛v.

fiddle around: Examples and translations in context

I would fiddle around with microscopes and electromagnets, and I would read about the forces of the small and about quantum mechanics and I would marvel at how well that description matched up to our observation.

我会不停地摆弄显微镜和电磁铁,我还会去阅读了解粒子间作用力和量子力学,然后惊叹于那描述与我们的观察竟如此契合。

No longer do you need to fiddle around the back of your PC to get to the soundcard inputs, only to find that the levels are all wrong and noisy.

你不再需要解决您的电脑后面摆弄去声卡的投入,才发现水平都是错误的和嘈杂。

You could even tattoo a QR Code on your body - now that would be an interesting take on giving a girl/guy your number in a bar! You can use QR Codes on a website but they should not generally be used as a substitute for an old-fashioned hyperlink because obviously the user is already online and doesn't really want to fiddle around with their phone only to find a website they could have just clicked through to in half the time.

你甚至可以纹身二维码在你的身上! 现在,这将是一个有趣采取让一个女孩/家伙在酒吧里你的电话号码 ,你可以使用二维码在网站上,但他们一般不应被用来作为一种替代老式的超链接,因为很明显,用户已经在网上并没有真正想摆弄自己的手机才发现,他们可以通过刚才单击以一半的时间网站。

There are a good deal of places to purchase toys your kid can fiddle around with, however, just Fisher-Price provides a choice of toys and tasks which were intended to help your own kids' minds develop with their bodies.

有一个良好的地方购买的玩具你的孩子可以摆弄, 然而, 只是费雪-的价格提供了一个选择的玩具和任务的目的都是帮助你自己的孩子` 头脑发展与他们的尸体.

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