fiddle
n. 小提琴, 提琴类乐器 vt. 虚度时光, 拉小提琴 vi. 拉小提琴, (无目的地)拨弄, 瞎搞
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教材释义与例句
小提琴
虚度时光；拉小提琴
瞎搞；拉小提琴
释义与例句
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A violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin, shoulder, chest or on the upper thigh and played with a bow (see also usage notes below).
...Of harpe & of salteriun. of fiðele & of coriun...
When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like that, it's a violin.
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Any of various other bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.
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A violinist, or fiddler, in a band.
He is first fiddle in the band.
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Something resembling a violin, or fiddle, in shape
A dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves supposed to resemble the musical instrument.
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Something resembling a violin, or fiddle, in shape
A long pole pulled by a draft animal to drag loose straw, hay, etc.
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Something resembling a violin, or fiddle, in shape
A rack for drying pottery after glazing.
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A clown; an unserious person entertaining a group.
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Unskillful or unartful behavior, particularly when showy and superficially pleasing.
A scam; a fraud or swindle.
比喻 非正式There was some kind of fiddle going on at that company, and several of the directors were arrested.
Says Bevin: 'I want peace... and we shan't get it unless we deal with one another as friends. I will be a party to no fiddles.'
I know you'll think this is one of my fiddles. At my last parish we raffled a horse and trap,... a clothes horse and a mousetrap.
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Unskillful or unartful behavior, particularly when showy and superficially pleasing.
A workaround; a quick and less than perfect solution for some flaw or problem.
比喻 非正式That parameter setting is just a fiddle to make the lighting look right.
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Unskillful or unartful behavior, particularly when showy and superficially pleasing.
An act of tinkering, playing around, or fidgeting with something.
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Any rail or device that prevents items from sliding off a table, stove, etc. in rough water.
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An arrest warrant.
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A watchman's rattle.
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A trifling amount.
英国 废旧 俚语Done at a fiddle.
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To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style.
不及物to fiddle while Rome burns
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To fraudulently manipulate (records, accounts, etc.) in order to cheat or swindle.
非正式 及物Fred was sacked when the auditors caught him fiddling the books.
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To fidget or play; to fuss; to idly amuse oneself, to act aimlessly, idly, or frivolously, particularly out of nervousness or restlessness; see also fiddle with.
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不及物Sit up straight and stop fiddling!
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Synonym of tinker (“to make small adjustments or improvements”); see also fiddle with.
非正式 不及物I don't exactly know how to fix this lawnmower; I'm really just fiddling.
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To do odd jobs for money.
英国 不及物 废旧 俚语
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Synonym of fiddlesticks or euphemism for fuck.
Oh, fiddle. I left my whip in the stable.
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From Middle English fithele, from Old English *fiþele, from Proto-West Germanic *fiþulā, from Proto-Germanic *fiþulǭ (“fiddle”), of uncertain etymology. Some contest that the Germanic terms are borrowed variations of Late Latin vitula (see viola); others contest that the word has a separate origin within Germanic languages, and still others believe that the Late Latin term for the stringed instrument is a borrowing from Germanic as a change of Latin t to Germanic þ is highly improbable, yet Germanic þ to Latin t is well documented (see troop, trousers, Teobaldo, etc.). Cognate with Old High German fidula (German Fiedel), Middle Dutch vedele (Dutch vedel, veel), Old Norse fiðla (Icelandic fiðla, Danish fiddel, Norwegian fela, Swedish fela). The change from /ðl/ to /dl/ in modern English is regular; compare Bedlam, staddle, swaddle (in brothel, it was prevented; see that entry for discussion).
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