I find so much fun especially tinkering with technology.

我发现了很多乐趣，尤其是摆弄科技产品。

I know because I went right to work on this new clock thing I've been tinkering with.

我一回家就接着修新钟表去了，所以记得很清楚。

And tinkering away at an engine instead of fighting for freedom?

每天和引擎打交道，而不是为自由而战？

They whiled away the hours tinkering with electronics in the Jobs' house.

他们在乔布斯家里花费大量时间研究电子设备。

They keep tinkering with the same problems instead of letting go and moving forward.

他们总是在同样的问题上修修补补，而不是放手向前。

Often our tinkerings with nature do lead to big, unintended consequences and chain reactions.

往往地我们对大自然的小修改 会导致很大的，不可预知的后果和连锁反应。

And they've also learned that, by tinkering with it, they can change the way customers spend.

他们已经认识到，通过修补它，他们可以改变客户的消费方式。

The number one issue is safety, but all of that testing and tinkering doesn't come cheap.

首要的问题是安全，但所有的测试和修补都不便宜。

Hunting for smaller ones meant tinkering with the software to boost its ability to detect tiny features.

寻找较小物体意味着对软件进行升级，以提高其检测微小特征的能力。

Some people worry that tinkering deliberately with the atmosphere may cause more harm than good.

有人担心，以粗浅的方法任意操纵大气层，弊会大于利。

He spent 15 years tinkering with over 5,000 different prototypes to come up with the perfect bagless design.

他花了15年时间，对5,000多个不同原型进行了修改，最终发明了一种完美的无袋吸尘器。

Ameliorating autism by tinkering with the ecology of the gut might thus be a fruitful line of inquiry.

通过鼓捣肠道生态学改善孤独者或许是一次富有成效的调查。

And it launched some garage tinkering for Warner, who by day works on improving particle accelerators at Fermilab.

于是白天在费米实验室进行粒子加速器的改进工作后，华纳晚上在车库中致力于自己的奇思妙想研究。

As ecologist Aldo Leopold said, " To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering."

正如生态学家奥尔多·利奥波德所言：“理想补救要兴起，零件齐全是前提”。

And like many similar projects on Earth, the owners cannot resist tinkering with it.

它的所有者会忍不住地想去改进它，就像改进地球上很多类似项目一样。

I did a little tinkering to the formula.

我对配方做出了一点调整。

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

利用手边任何可得的材料，再将它们捣鼓一番，是培养这些重要的“制造者”技能的一种简单方法。

Other innovators are tinkering with the fundamental chemistry of concrete.

其他创新者正在修补混凝土的基础化学。

So they had to keep tinkering.

所以他们不得不继续修补。

He notes that, in the rich West, tinkering is often playful.

他指出，在富裕的西方，修修补补往往是一种好玩的行为。