I always played second fiddle to him.

哪次我都甘拜下风。

He can't stop fiddling with the controls.

他一直在弄遥控器。

Sometimes, when the words come hard, I'm still fiddling around at teatime.

有的时候写得不顺，到下午茶的时间我还在晃荡。

Others gossiped or fiddled with their mobile phones.

一些在一旁聊着八卦；还有些在玩着手机。

After all, the boy had that car he was always fiddling with, she said.

那个小子也有一辆时常捣鼓的车，她说。

You got to fiddle with the switch, but it works.

你得注意拨弄一下开关，但还是好用的。

He fiddles with a newspaper and a letter.

他递上一份报纸一封信。

Can you get on the fiddle?

你能拉拉小提琴吗？

To find out, they started to fiddle with friction.

为了找出答案，他们开始不断调试摩擦力。

Engels was gifted, energetic and fascinated by political ideas, he was nevertheless ready to play second fiddle to Marx.

恩格斯天资聪慧、力过人，为诸多政治思想而目眩神迷，但他却甘于充当那片“绿叶”。

Some of banking's biggest names stand accused of fiddling interest-rate and foreign-exchange benchmarks.

银行的大腕们也面临着人们对其弄利率银行基准的指责。

They're new people, um, and avoid fiddling if you can.

面试官们都是第一次见你，你应尽量弄。

No, they don't have a lot of steel guitars and fiddles on there. They're doing it their way.

不，他们没有太多吉他小提琴。年轻人有自己唱歌的风格。

Always fiddling with the piano or sticking their heads in a book.

整天要么弹钢琴，要么钻书本。

To find out how the jays do it, researchers fiddled with their feed.

为探究墨西哥松鸦的行为方式，研究人员在它们的食物中做了手脚。

Battling displaced Cherokee and fierce winters, there was little time for fiddle playing.

抵抗寒冬与流离失所的切罗基人，这个防御堡垒曾经一刻不得闲。

Then she tries to fiddle with Ove's radio to find " a more entertaining station."

然后，她开始调欧维的电台来“找个有意思的频道”。

Then he went outside to see if anything on the truck needed fiddling with.

于是，他出了门，去检查卡车有没有什么毛病要修。

Why would Mr Modi's government fiddle the figures to flatter its hated predecessor?

莫迪政府为何要篡改数据，以讨好其令人憎恨的前任呢？

He took center stage and actually played a kind of Balkan fiddle called a gusle.

他会成为焦点，演奏一种类似巴尔干提琴的乐器——古兹拉琴。