Nowadays, evolution just tinkers with old body plans.

如今，进化只是按照老的体形横剖修修。

We used to make do and mend much more.

我们曾经更多会把东西修修将就用。

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，而不是放手向前。

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

对山脉修修太多，会使它们变得松散，山坡会开裂。

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

让人干修修的活儿，那是老太婆的骗局。

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，我茫然：自己是否已成了罪犯？

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

“他从没有真正喜欢过机的东西。”在引盖下修修吸引不了乔布斯。

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

它们总是做些修修的工作，但大型的整修还待雨后泥土松软时再动工。

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

一旦你在那里修修，你知道，很多事情可能会出错。

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

他指出，在富裕的西，修修往往是一种好玩的行为。

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

而且我认为很多听众会认为， 嗯，实际上，这只是在修修。

The tinkering Soichiro created a stamp to forge his family seal out of a used bicycle pedal cover.

善于修修的宗一郎用一个用过的自行车踏板盖制作了一张印章，用来伪造他家的印章。

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发明的， 因为工匠们用玻璃进行实验以更好地弯曲光线。

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，里的东西定期有个故障，好让他们修修。

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”是政府提倡的理念。

They only had a small row house with a tiny outside space, yet there always seemed to be something to plant and something to build.

他们只有一栋带一小片后院的联排别墅，门前有一小排花坛，但总有些花花草草要种，总有些地要修修。

A couple of kids tinkering in their garage created a company that now has a bigger quarterly profit than all the big oil companies and even Walmart.

几个在车库里修修的孩子创建了一家公司，现在它的季度利润比所有大型石油公司甚至沃尔玛都要高。

It has promised to reduce and target subsidies while protecting the poorest, but so far has trimmed only around the edges, for instance by raising fuel prices for some industries.

政府曾承诺在保护穷人的前提下，会有的放矢减少贴，但是目前为止，只是修修，比如对某些行业提高燃料价格。

If owners tinker with the machine so that it benefits them more than others, they create a feedback loop where power and everything that flows with it calcifies within their families.

如果所有者对机器进行修修，使其比其他人对他们更有利，他们就会创建一个反馈回路，在这个回路中，权力和随之而来的一切都会在他们的家庭中形成钙化。