1570s, "trifles" (n.); 1630s "busy oneself with trifles; talk nonsense" (v.), apparently a reduplication of obsolete faddle "to trifle," or of fiddle in its contemptuous sense.
双语例句
1. Police investigating a £10 million car insurance fiddle arrested 16 people yesterday.
调查涉及1,000万英镑的汽车保险诈骗案的警察昨天逮捕了16人。
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2. Two of them got out to fiddle around with the engine.
其中两人下车鼓捣引擎。
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3. She hated the thought of playing second fiddle to Rose.
想到要身居罗斯之下她就很郁闷。
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4. Hardy as a young man played the fiddle at local dances.
哈迪年轻时在当地舞会上演奏小提琴。
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5. He brought out the fiddle, its varnish cracked and blistered.
