| 单词 | fiddle |
| 释义 | fiddle (once / 591 pages) 1nv 2v 3v 4v A fiddle is the same thing as a violin. The instrument, which has strings and is played with a bow, is more likely to be called a fiddle when it's used to play traditional or folk tunes, rather than classical music. Fiddle music is typically written for dancing, and it comes from backgrounds as diverse as Scotland, Eastern Europe, and the Cajun and Zydeco traditions from Louisiana. To play the fiddle is to fiddle, and when you mess or play around with something, you also fiddle: "Do you have to fiddle with your pen while I'm talking?" Someone who's "fit as a fiddle" is in perfect health. WORD FAMILYfiddle: fiddled, fiddler, fiddles, fiddling+/fiddler: fiddlers/fiddling: fiddlingly USAGE EXAMPLESIt was the perfect Garcon moment: a quotidian announcement in which he played second fiddle to someone else. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Some see Moscow playing Trump like a fiddle. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Mr Mutharika was "fit as a fiddle" and holding important meetings in the US, his spokesman insisted. BBC(Dec 27, 2016) 1 1n bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow Syn|Hypo|Hyper violin Amati a violin made by Nicolo Amati or a member of his family Guarneriusa violin made by a member of the Guarneri family Strad, Stradavariusa violin made by Antonio Stradivari or a member of his family bowed stringed instrument, string stringed instruments that are played with a bow 2v play the violin or fiddle Hyper play perform music on (a musical instrument) 3v play on a violin 2Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely Hyper play, spiel replay (as a melody) 1v manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination Don't fiddle with the screws Syn|Hypo|Hyper diddle, play, toy put out, retire cause to be out on a fielding play manipulate hold something in one's hands and move it 2v play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly The reporter fiddle with the facts Syn|Hyper monkey, tamper manipulate hold something in one's hands and move it 3v try to fix or mend 3She always fiddles with her van on the weekend Syn|Hyper tinker bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken v avoid (one's assigned duties) 4Syn|Hypo|Hyper goldbrick, shirk, shrink from scrimshank British military language: avoid work malinger, skulkavoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill slackavoid responsibilities and work, be idle avoid refrain from doing something v commit fraud and steal from one's employer We found out that she had been fiddling for years Hyper defalcate, embezzle, malversate, misappropriate, peculate appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
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