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When you fine-tune something, you do not start again. You make very small, careful changes so a machine, a system, or a plan works as well as it can.
When you fine-tune something當你fine-tune某個東西時 you do not start again不是重新開始 You make very small, careful changes而是做非常小心、細微的調整 so a machine, a system, or a plan works as well as it can好讓機器、系統或計畫能發揮到最好
Musicians fine-tune an instrument when it is almost right and they need the last little bit. People also fine-tune a skill: the big learning is done, and now they polish the last details.
Musicians fine-tune an instrument樂手會fine-tune樂器 when it is almost right在它已經差不多對的時候 and they need the last little bit他們需要的是最後那一點點 People also fine-tune a skill人們也會fine-tune一項技能 the big learning is done大部分的學習都已經完成 and now they polish the last details現在只是在打磨最後的細節
Though actually, you will hear this a lot around computers now: someone fine-tunes a ready-made model on a smaller set of examples so it becomes good at one job. That is the same idea — it already works, and you only adjust it.
Though actually不過其實 you will hear this a lot around computers now現在你在電腦領域會常聽到這個詞 someone fine-tunes a ready-made model有人會fine-tune一個現成的模型 on a smaller set of examples用一小組範例 so it becomes good at one job好讓它變得擅長某一項工作 That is the same idea這是同樣的概念 it already works它已經能運作了 and you only adjust it你只是在調整它
The word feels calm and a little technical; fine for class or work, not fancy.
The word feels calm and a little technical這個字感覺平靜、帶點技術感 fine for class or work用在課堂或工作上都合適 not fancy不是什麼花俏的字
組成fine (small and careful) + tune (adjust so it works or sounds right)
同家族的字
- tunethe same “adjust” sense: you tune a radio or an engine; you fine-tune when the changes are tiny
- fine-tuningthe noun for that act of making tiny changes
原始詞典資料1 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。
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To make small adjustments to (something) until it is optimal.
- Jim fine-tuned the radio until the sound was perfect.
- Tevez, however, may need to fine-tune his penalty-taking technique. In the 57th minute he had the chance to soothe any lingering nerves, when he ran clear from Kolarov's pass and again exposed the high line of Leicester's defence, only for Hobbs to hack him down. The centre-half was fortunate not to be shown a red card – a point Mancini made on the touchline – but Tevez aimed his penalty low and hard, straight down the middle, and Weale saved with his feet.
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。