n.[C]
- 【口】小提琴
- 【俚】欺詐；騙局
- 【海】餐具框
vi.
- 【口】拉提琴
- 胡來，亂動；（對機械等）盲目擺動[（+with）]
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Don't
fiddle with my new car.
別亂動我的新汽車。
- 【口】遊蕩；不經意地做事[（+about/around）]
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Stop
fiddling about.
別再閒蕩了。
vt.
- 【口】用小提琴演奏（曲調等）
- 浪費（時間等）[（+away）]
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He
fiddled away the whole afternoon.
他浪費了整整一個下午。
- 【口】用詭計獲得，騙取
- 【口】偽造，竄改（帳目等）
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fiddle an income tax return
偽造所得稅申報表
片語
a face as long as a fiddle
- 板著臉
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He came back with
a face as long as a fiddle.
他板著臉回來了。
fit as a fiddle
- 非常健康
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He was
fit as a fiddle when he came back from abroad.
他從國外回來時身體很好。
play second fiddle
- 居次位
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I have to
play second fiddle to him.
我只好給他當副手。
辨析
n.
- informal a violin.
- informal, chiefly Brit. an act of fraud or cheating.
- Brit. informal an unnecessarily intricate or awkward task.
- Nautical a raised rim that prevents things from falling off a table in rough seas.
v.
- touch or fidget with something restlessly or nervously.
- informal, chiefly Brit. falsify (figures, data, or records).
- informal play the violin.
Phrase
- fiddle while Rome burns
be concerned with relatively trivial matters while ignoring the serious events going on around one. -
(as)
fit as a fiddle
in very good health. - on the fiddle
informal, chiefly Brit. engaged in fraud or cheating. - play second fiddle to
take a subordinate role to.
Derivative
Etymology
OE fithele, based on L. vitulari ‘celebrate a festival’; cf. viol.
