Microscopes and telescopes were invented by way of artistic tinkering, as craftsmen experimented with glass to better bend light.

工匠们对玻璃进行试验，为了找到更好地折射光线的方法，在摆弄工艺的过程中发明出了显微镜和望远镜。

Taking whatever materials are handy and tinkering with them is a simple way to engage those important "maker" skills.

拿起手边的任意材料，对它们进行修修补补，是一种学会重要的“制造者”技能的简单方法。

Ever since he was a young guy, he was always fixing up people's bikes and tinkering with things. He had a lot of great qualities.

他从小就经常帮人修理自行车和修补东西。他有很多优秀的品质。

And he hasn't stopped tinkering.

而且他还没有停止他的实验。

Did you love tinkering with cars?

你热爱修补汽车的时候？

This can be done by tinkering with their genes.

这可以通过对它们进行基因改造来实现。

Moving to a new climate calls for some tinkering.

刚到一个新环境中需要一些变化。

Some tinkering to suit local needs may be possible.

一些适应当地需求的努力还是有可能的。

But others say he's just tinkering, re-engineering.

但其他人说，他这只是在修修补补，是在搞重组再造。

Instead, the country faces a string of tinkering changes.

相反，英国面临着一长串修修补补的变更。

Stop tinkering with that clock and take it to the repair shop.

别摆弄那只钟了，把它送到修理店去修吧。

The Puffin may never fly, but other inventors are tinkering.

也许海雀还不能飞，但其他的发明家仍在努力。

It also frees up more spectrum for tinkering on unlicensed space.

它也释放了更多的频谱空间来修复无牌照空间。

You might want to go through the readme file for some advanced tinkering.

你可能需要阅读以下自述文件查看一些比较高级的补充功能。

The simple impact of change over time may require tinkering and adjusting.

随着时间的推移而产生的变更的简单影响可能需要修补及调整。

But such tinkering, effective though it sometimes is, may no longer be enough.

不过，这样的微调举措尽管有时也是有效的，但可能再也不够了。

Tinkering with transfer-pricing rules or CFC rules will not solve the problem.

对转移定价规则或受控外国公司规则修修补补将无济于事。

A few hours of tinkering is all that's needed to realize a 10 - to 200-percent gain.

实现10%到200%的性能提升只需几个小时的优化和修补。

The young inventor was badly scalded Ford’s year of curiosity and tinkering paid off.

多年后，福特的好奇心和他的动手能力使他得到了回报。

Too much damage to or tinkering with an item would, of course, raise suspicions anyway.

当然，过分损坏或经过修补的物体会引起怀疑。

They are trying to grow supersize salmon by tinkering with the genes for growth hormone.

他们采用基因随机改变生长激素的方法来产生超级鲑鱼。

Nor does Lord Turner believe that tinkering with the structure will improve supervision.

特纳勋爵也认为修补结构将改善监督。

In his quest to unveil the varying shapes, he is constantly tinkering with his experiment.

为了追求能显示各种不同的形状，他不断地对他的实验进行修补和调整。

Torvalds kept tinkering, and before long he had created a working operating system kernel.

托瓦尔兹不断修补，并且在不久之后，他就创建了一个可运行的操作系统内核。

But following the ruckus over the AEP, several states are tinkering with the course material.

但是随着AEP引发诸多争议，数个邦都在对教材乱改一气。

Suppose scientists could erase certain memories by tinkering with a single substance in the brain.

假如科学家能够通过修改脑中的某种物质来消除特定的记忆。

I knew next to nothing about software, but I was good with tinkering, and was building a computer.

当时我对软件基本上一无所知，当时我擅长修修补补，并且还在自己装电脑。

The limit to the quants’ tinkering has been not mathematics but the speed, power and cost of computers.

数量分析师在此类修补上的局限已不是数学问题而是计算机的速度、能力与成本。