fiddle （口語）小提琴（尤指民謠音樂）；（動詞）把玩、亂動；（英式俚語）做假帳。｜字脈

原始詞典資料20 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

fiddlenoun/ˈfɪd(ə)l/

1
A violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin, shoulder, chest or on the upper thigh and played with a bow (see also usage notes below).
- ...Of harpe & of salteriun. of fiðele & of coriun...
- Johnny, rosin up your bow and play your fiddle hard 'Cause Hell's broke loose in Georgia an' the Devil deals the cards...
2
Any of various other bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.
- The fiddle of these early times, however, was the viol and not our modern violin.
3
A violinist, or fiddler, in a band.
- He is first fiddle in the band.
4
biologynatural-sciencesSomething resembling a violin, or fiddle, in shape
5
Something resembling a violin, or fiddle, in shape
6
Something resembling a violin, or fiddle, in shape
7
A clown; an unserious person entertaining a group.
- You would not have your Son the Fiddle to every jovial Company.
8
informalUnskillful or unartful behavior, particularly when showy and superficially pleasing.
- There was some kind of fiddle going on at that company, and several of the directors were arrested.
- Says Bevin: 'I want peace... and we shan't get it unless we deal with one another as friends. I will be a party to no fiddles.'

另外 6 個記錄的用法

9
informalUnskillful or unartful behavior, particularly when showy and superficially pleasing.
- That parameter setting is just a fiddle to make the lighting look right.
10
informalUnskillful or unartful behavior, particularly when showy and superficially pleasing.
- Most people are quite careful about buying appliances. When looking at TVs for instance you might look for a particular brand, peruse the definition and colors on the screen, and maybe even have a fiddle with the remote.
11
nauticaltransportAny rail or device that prevents items from sliding off a table, stove, etc. in rough water.
- The meal is served on special trays which slot into the arms of airline-type seats of the passenger coaches. The trays have fiddles for each of the plates, cups and glasses, and the crockery is so well-designed that it is seldom any of the contents get spilled.
12
obsoleteslangAn arrest warrant.
13
obsoleteslangA watchman's rattle.
14
obsoleteslangA trifling amount.
- Done at a fiddle.

fiddleverb/ˈfɪd(ə)l/

1
To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style.
- to fiddle while Rome burns
- Themistocles […] said he could not fiddle, but yet he could make a small town a great city.
2
informalTo fraudulently manipulate (records, accounts, etc.) in order to cheat or swindle.
- Fred was sacked when the auditors caught him fiddling the books.
3
To fidget or play; to fuss; to idly amuse oneself, to act aimlessly, idly, or frivolously, particularly out of nervousness or restlessness; see also fiddle with.
- Sit up straight and stop fiddling!
- Loke you fydell nat with your handes whan your maister speketh to you.
4
informalSynonym of tinker (“to make small adjustments or improvements”); see also fiddle with.
- I don't exactly know how to fix this lawnmower; I'm really just fiddling.
5
obsoleteslangTo do odd jobs for money.
- A cake-seller told me that a little while before I saw him a lad of twelve or so had consumed a shilling’s worth of cakes and pastry, as he had got a shilling by “fiddling;” not, be it understood, by the exercise of any musical skill, for “fiddling,” among the initiated, means the holding of horses, or the performing of any odd jobs.

fiddleintj/ˈfɪd(ə)l/

1
Synonym of fiddlesticks or euphemism for fuck.
- Oh, fiddle. I left my whip in the stable.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。原文照列，未經改寫。