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Fiddly describes a job that is hard not because it needs strength or clever thinking, but because the pieces are small, awkward, or keep slipping through your fingers. Putting a tiny screw into a phone, a needle, seating a SIM card — those are fiddly.
Fiddly describes a job that is hardfiddly形容一件很難搞的工作，not because it needs strength or clever thinking不是因為需要力氣或聰明的腦筋，but because the pieces are small, awkward, or keep slipping through your fingers而是因為東西很小、不好拿，或一直從你手指間滑掉。Putting a tiny screw into a phone, threading a needle, seating a SIM card像把小螺絲鎖進手機、穿針，或裝SIM卡——those are fiddly這些都是fiddly。
British speakers use it a lot in everyday talk; it sounds informal and a bit complaining, though actually people often say it with a small smile, as if to mean “this is , but I’ll manage.” Americans know the word, but many would rather say awkward, , or just a pain.
British speakers use it a lot in everyday talk英國人在日常對話裡很常用這個字，it sounds informal and a bit complaining聽起來很口語，還帶點抱怨的感覺，though actually people often say it with a small smile不過其實大家講的時候常常帶著一點微笑，as if to mean "this is annoying, but I'll manage."好像在說「這很煩，但我應付得來」。Americans know the word美國人聽得懂這個字，but many would rather say awkward, fussy, or just a pain但很多人比較喜歡說awkward、fussy，或就是a pain。
It does not praise the work as skilled or important. It only talks about the hands, and the bother.
It does not praise the work它不是在稱讚這件工作as skilled or important很厲害或很重要。It only talks about the hands它只是在講手上的動作，and the bother還有那份麻煩。
組成From fiddle + -y. The fiddle here is the verb: to handle something in a small, restless, often awkward way — not the violin.
同家族的字
- fiddlethe verb this adjective comes from — to mess with something with your fingers
原始詞典資料4 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。
fiddlyadj/ˈfɪdli/
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Requiring dexterity to operate.
- The buttons on the tiny mobile phone were too fiddly.
- Today around 90 percent of people use Zawgyi instead of Unicode. Incompatible without fiddly plug-ins, it only allows people to communicate in Burmese with other Zawgyi users, excluding the nation’s minority languages. Its clunkiness also means search functions do not work, crippling data storage systems.
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Having many small bits or embellishments.
- See, Barbados, like certain other fiddly little islands— Antigua, Saint Lucia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Japan, Great Britain, Australia— is filled with a genus of hotspurs fiercely dedicated to motoring on the wrong side of the road.
- But the draping roses, and the double bell of dress and overskirt — fiddly, too bloody fiddly!
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Of or relating to fiddling or fidgeting.
- I can divide my movements into two types: gross motor and fine motor (in other words, large movements and small, fiddly movements) and, as I have already described, I have far more problems with the latter than the former.
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Pertaining to occasional under-the-table work by people who receive unemployment benefits
- Because benefit dependence was understood to confine people to poverty ('bend the rules - you've got to in this world cause of the pittance you get off the government') and because doing fiddly work indicated a commitment to self-reliance ('at least they're working') it was widely condoned.
- The other mjinority group has, by being members of the appropriate social networks, access to fiddly jobs.
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。