tinkering

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做焊锅匠( tinker的现在分词 )；焊补；胡乱修补；笨手笨脚地做某事

tinker with胡乱地修补

1. Synthetic biology is more than the mere tinkering of biotechnology.
   合成生物学不完全等同于基因熔补术，因为后者仅仅移植单个基因。
2. Even plastic litter, which once threatened to permanently blot the landscape, has proved amenable to molecular tinkering.
   即便是塑料垃圾，这种一度威胁着会永久破坏环境的东西，也被证明是可以进行分子级别的熔补的。

Tinkering Toward Utopia
Tinkering toward utopia :
Evolution and tinkering.
Tinkering with enzymes: what are we learning?
Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform by David Tyack; Larry Cuban
From thinking to tinkering: The grassroots of strategic information systems
From thinking to tinkering: the grassroots of strategic information systems
Cytochrome oxidase evolved by tinkering with denitrification enzymes
"Restructuring"in Historical Perspective: Tinkering toward Utopia.
Mosaic Evolution of Subterranean Mammals: Tinkering, Regression, Progression, and Global Convergence