Nowadays, evolution just tinkers with old body plans.

如今，进化只是按照老的体形横剖面修修补补。

We used to make do and mend much more.

我们曾经更多会把东西修修补补将就用。

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。

Tinkering too much with the mountains makes them loose and hill slopes can crack.

对山脉修修补补太多，会使它们变得松散，山坡会开裂。

“He never really cared too much about mechanical things.”

“他从没有真正喜欢过机械方面的东西。”在引擎盖下修修补补根本吸引不了乔。

It's the old woman's tricks to be giving cobbling jobs.

让人干修修补补的活，那是老太婆的骗局。

Levin said the time for " tinkering" is over and instead asked for " radical decarbonization."

说，“修修补补”的时代已经结束，取而代之的是要求“彻底脱碳”。

Were it not sinful then, striving to mend, To mar the subject that before was well?

好端端的题材反失于修修补补，我茫然：自己是否已成了罪犯？

It's always maintenance work to do, but major renovations have to wait until after rain when the soil is soft.

它们总是做些修修补补的工作，但大型的整修还待雨后泥土松软时再动工。

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。

Once you're tinkering in there, you know, a lot of things might go wrong.

一旦你在那里修修补补，你知道，很多事情可能会出错。

No matter what, you're going to fix things.

无论如何，你都得修修补补。

He loved tinkering and playing this and playing that.

他喜欢动手修修补补，玩玩这个，又弄弄那个。

So it's just like a tinkering, a craft.

所以这就像是一种修修补补，一门手艺。

And I think a lot of listeners will think, well, actually, this is just tinkering around the edges.

我认为很多听众会认为这只是在边缘修修补补。

Microscopes and telescopes were invented by way of artistic tinkering , as craftsmen experimented with glass to better bend light.

显微镜和望远镜是通过艺术修修补补发明的， 因为工匠们用玻璃进行实验以更好地弯曲光线。

So my generation, my parents, you know, definitely came from that 'make do and mend' era post war in the sort of 20th century.

所以，我这一代，我的父母，你知道，绝对来自20世纪战后那种修修补补将就用的时代。

Fantastic. Well, saving money, saving materials... wow! ... was of course important 'Make do and Mend' was the philosophy as promoted by the government.

太棒了。嗯，省钱，节省材料… … 哇！… … 当然很重要。“凑合着用，修修补补”是政府提倡的理念。

A job where you had a proper function. A house where things broke at regular intervals, so you always had something to tinker with.

一份可以有所作为的工作，一套房子，里面的东西定期有个故障，好让他们修修补补。

A bad editor has a compulsion to tinker, proving with busywork that he hasn't forgotten the minutiae of grammar and usage.

而一个糟糕的编辑则有修修补补的强迫症，通过忙碌的工作来证明自己没有忘记语法和用法的细枝末节。