Don’t go fiddling around with that spanner, you’ll bugger the whole works up

别拿那扳手乱摆弄，你会把整个机件都搞坏的。

Stop fiddling around and get to work.

别再鬼混, 去干活吧!

Stop fiddling (about)and do some work.

别再瞎混了,做点事吧.

Stop fiddling about.

别再闲荡了。

Stop fiddling !

不要虚度光阴!

Don’t stand there fiddling about; go on with your work

不要站在那里混时间，继续干活吧!

During the last few days I have been thanking God I was not a superior person (laughter), and that I had not a facile pen or a great sense of saturnine humour so that I must indulge in something parallel to Nero’s fiddling while Rome burned

过去几天我一直在感谢上帝，幸亏我不是超人，(笑声)又没有生花妙笔，或尖酸刻薄的幽默感，(译注:影射文豪萧伯纳，他曾有《人与超人》一作)我不必附庸风雅，效法暴君尼禄在罗马焚城时仍有闲情逸致吟诗作乐。

She was fiddling about with a pencil

她无意识地摆弄一支铅笔。

He had been fiddling with drawings for the news sheet

他一直在摆弄着新闻版插图的位置。

He was punished for fiddling with the accounts for years

他由于多年来一直在篡改帐目而受到了惩罚。

He was fiddling about with the car engine

他在摆弄汽车发动机。

He was fiddling with a piece of string

他在无聊地玩弄一条绳子。

Well, we’d better get started and stop fiddling about.

喂,我们最好开始吧,别再闲逛了。

He seemed to see a vision of London, vast and ruinous, city of a million dustbins, and mixed up with it was a picture of Mrs Parsons, a woman with lined face and wispy hair, fiddling helplessly with a blocked waste-pipe

温斯顿仿佛就看到了伦敦城，这庞然大物一片倾圮破败，成百万的垃圾箱塞满了全城;在这城市的惨景上面，再叠印了帕森斯太太的一张照片--满脸皱纹，头发疏落，徒然挣扎着要鼓捣好那堵塞的水管。

He’s been fiddling his time away in London when we needed him here

我们需要他在这里的时候，他却在伦敦浪费时间。

He was sitting there with a large portfolio open on his lap, fiddling with the corner of a sheaf of documents with one hand and stroking his chin with the other

一个很大的公事皮包摊开着放在膝头，这位秋律师一手拈着一叠文件的纸角，一手摸着下巴在那里出神。

An old man was fiddling away at the street corner

一个老人一直在街角拉着小提琴。

The child kept fiddling with his food

这孩子老是把食物弄着玩。

||1: As the editor of Make, a magazine for American hobbyists, the author is well-placed to tap the nation’s vein of frustrated creativity and fiddling . ||2: Time was, he says nostalgically, when household equipment came with the expectation that the owner could and would wield the tools required to fix it: a wrench, pliers, screwdriver and hammer were all that was needed to keep an early Ford automobile on the road. ||3: That changed, he says, thanks to Sigmund Freud’s nephew, Edward Louis Bernays, the pioneer of emotional advertising. ||4: He sold dreams of perfection instead of a partnership between man and machine. ||5: Now domestic appliances come with forbidding labels, such as “no user-serviceable parts” and “disassembly voids warranty”.

||1:本书作者作为美国业余爱好者杂志《动手做》的编辑，由他来开发这个国家未得施展的创造力和动手捣鼓东西的本事，正是再合适不过了。||2:他怀旧地说道，曾几何时，家用设备的出现带着这样一种期望：其拥有者可以也愿意使用必要的工具对其进行修理。扳手、钳子、螺丝刀和锤子是保证一辆早期福特车在路上行使的必备物品。||3:这种情况已经改变了，他说，这都要“归功”于西格蒙德·弗洛伊德的外甥——爱德华·路易斯·伯奈斯——这位情感广告的先驱者。||4:他用出售完美的梦想取代了出售人与机器之间的伙伴关系。||5:现在的家用电器都带上了禁止标签，比如“不含用户可维修零件”和“拆开产品保修无效”。

||1:Unfortunately, it is impossible to tag more than a few individuals in a herd, flock or swarm.||2:Researchers have therefore tended to extrapolate from these few results by using various computer models.||3:Dr Couzin has done quite a bit of this himself.||4:Most recently, he has modelled the behaviour of shoals of fish.||5:He posited that how they swim will depend on each individual’s competing tendencies to stick close to the others (and thus move in the same direction as them) while not actually getting too close to any particular other fish.||6:It turns out that by fiddling with these tendencies, a virtual shoal can be made to swirl spontaneously in a circle, just like some real species do.

||1:不幸的是，要想标记出一大群动物的行为几乎是不可能的。||2:研究人员因此倾向于通过使用各种计算机模型来推断这些鲜为人知的结论。||3:Couzin博士身先士卒。||4:最近，他用计算机模仿了鱼群的行为。||5:他设想，鱼群的游动主要取决于每条鱼之间的相互挤碰（因此鱼群会向着一个方向游动），而实际上并不会挤碰旁边的其他鱼，只是一种趋势而已。||6:事实证明，鱼群内部像这样彼此间的相互挤碰，不自然的就会是鱼群形成螺旋状。

||1:Weren’t the Europeans supposed to be cleaning up their balance-sheets? Private-equity firmsthat have raised billions to buy up distressed assets from European banks are kicking theirheels while they wait for deals to arrive.||2:Regulators worry that banks, rather than writingoff or selling bad loans, have been fiddling with the models that dictate how much capitalthey need to hold.||3:Danske Bank, a big Danish lender, was abruptly ordered by its supervisor tochange its calculations last month, lowering its capital ratio.||4:Denmark is outside the euro,but even German politicians joke about the nasty surprises in their banks’ balance-sheets.

||1:难道欧洲的负债资产表不应该被清除吗？私募公司积攒了数十亿，想从欧洲银行手中收购了不良资产，现在这些公司一直在渴望这笔交易，等得急不可耐。||2:监管部门担心，银行不会清除或者售出不良贷款，他们会动手脚改变模式，让人们不知道他们需要持有多少资金。||3:丹麦大型借贷银行丹斯克上个月突然接到上级命令，要他们换个算法，降低资产比例。||4:丹麦不属于欧元区，但是，德国政客们也在其银行资产负债表中开玩笑，嘲讽这个恶心的“惊喜”。

It turns out that by fiddling with these tendencies, avirtual shoal can be made to swirl spontaneously in a circle, just like somereal species do.

基于这些倾向就归纳出模型，这些模拟的鱼群可以自行转圈巡游，就像真的一样。

Fiddling with the mind

弦动我心

“Republik” helped to express public anger with politicians who had been caught fiddling their expenses, and to whip up calls for self-rule.

“共和国”帮助表达了公众对腐败被捕的政治家们的愤怒，并且帮助增大自治的喊声。

“He’s not dead, ” Marc said, fiddling now with his box of cigarettes. “You said he was dead. ”

“他还没死，”马克一边空虚的抽着烟，一边说。“你说他死了。”

’Have you got a spanner? ’ said Winston, fiddling with the nut on the angle-joint.

“有扳手吗？”温斯顿拨弄着弯头上的螺帽问。

While you’re in there fiddling with the databases, you may as well create the tables that Blahg will use in the beginning.

摆弄数据库的同时，您也可以创建Blahg将在开头使用的表。

Fiddling with the little brushes, fine powders and sticky tape can test the patience of the most fastidious crime-scene investigator.

摆弄小刷子，洒下细粉，贴上胶带对大多数挑剔的犯罪现场调查人员来说都是耐心的考验。

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。

But behind it lurks another troubling development: advanced nations fiddling their carbon reduction figures.

但其背后还隐藏着另一个令人不安的事态发展：发达国家篡改了自己的减排数据。