- 1很難弄、很麻煩（東西又小又不好下手）
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. 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. It does not praise the work as skilled or important. It only talks about the hands, and the bother.
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，摘錄並精簡格式，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/
- 1
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.
- 2
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!
- 3
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.
- 4
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.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。