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VERB
擺弄;撥弄
If you fiddle with an object, you keep moving it or touching it with your fingers.
例句
Harriet fiddled with a pen on the desk.
哈麗雅特擺弄著桌上的鋼筆。
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VERB
作小改動;略微變動;稍稍修改
If you fiddle with something, you change it in minor ways.
例句
She told Whistler that his portrait of her was finished and to stop fiddling with it.
她告訴惠斯勒他給她畫的肖像已經完成，不要再改了。
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VERB
調校;調整
If you fiddle with a machine, you adjust it.
例句
He turned on the radio and fiddled with the knob until he got a talk show.
他打開收音機，撥動旋鈕，直至調到一個脫口秀節目。
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VERB
篡改，偽造(財務記錄)
If someone fiddles financial documents, they alter them dishonestly so that they get money for themselves.
例句
He's been fiddling the books...
他一直在偽造賬目。
Stop fiddling your expenses account.
不要再在開支賬戶上動手腳了。
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N-COUNT
欺詐;詐騙
A fiddle is a dishonest action or scheme in which someone gets money for themselves.
例句
Police investigating a ￡10 million car insurance fiddle arrested 16 people yesterday.
調查涉及 1,000 萬英鎊的汽車保險詐騙案的警察昨天逮捕了 16 人。
...legitimate businesses that act as covers for tax fiddles.
為騙稅打掩護的合法企業
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N-SING
麻煩之事;繁瑣之事
If something is a fiddle, it is quite difficult to do because it involves small or complicated objects.
例句
I found out how to fix the tray on — a bit of a fiddle.
我知道該怎么把這盤子固定住了——有點麻煩。
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N-VAR
(尤指用于演奏民間音樂的)小提琴
Some people call violins fiddles, especially when they are used to play folk music.
例句
Hardy as a young man played the fiddle at local dances.
哈迪年輕時在當地舞會上演奏小提琴。
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PHRASE
非常健康;充滿活力
Someone who is as fit as a fiddle is very healthy and full of energy.
例句
I'm as fit as a fiddle — with energy to spare.
我非常健康——精力充沛。
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PHRASE
干騙錢的勾當;詐騙
If someone is on the fiddle, they get money by doing illegal or dishonest things.
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PHRASE
大難臨頭仍歌舞升平;見危難而若無其事
If you say that someone is fiddling while Rome burns, you mean that they are not dealing with a difficult or dangerous situation but instead are doing useless things or pretending that nothing is wrong.
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PHRASE
處于次要地位;當副手;唱配角
If you play second fiddle to someone, your position is less important than theirs in something that you are doing together.
例句
She hated the thought of playing second fiddle to Rose.
想到要身居羅斯之下她就很郁悶。
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PHRASAL VERB
擺弄，撥弄(使運轉)
If you fiddle around or fiddle about with a machine, you do things to it to try and make it work.
例句
Two of them got out to fiddle around with the engine.
其中兩人下車鼓搗引擎。
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PHRASAL VERB
虛度光陰;無所事事;瞎混
If someone fiddles around or fiddles about, they waste time doing unimportant things instead of dealing with important problems.
例句
He wants lawmakers to basically stop fiddling around as the country moves closer to breaking up...
國家在日益走向分裂，他希望立法者們再不要無所事事了。
He wastes time fiddling about with minor matters.
他把時間都浪費在雞毛蒜皮的小事上。
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PHRASAL VERB
對…作無謂的修改
If you say that someone is fiddling around with or fiddling about with something, you mean that they are changing it in a way that you disapprove of.
例句
Right now in Congress, they're fiddling around with the budget and so on...
此時在國會，他們正就預算案等等瞎折騰。
One always wonders when a man starts fiddling about with his Will.
一個人開始把遺囑改來改去時總讓人感到詫異。