bricoler

On a bricolé un peu et on a trouvé les numéros de téléphone.
We tinkered around a little, and we found the phone numbers.
Mon ex-mari a bricolé ça.
My ex-husband built it for me.
Elle a bricolé une caméra qu'elle porterait sur le ventre de telle sorte que son regard ne soit pas caché.
She knocked together a camera that she would wear on her belly so that her gaze not be hidden.
Michelle a bricolé les réglages de la table de mixage pendant un moment jusqu'à obtenir le son qu'elle voulait.
Michelle fiddled with the settings on the mixer for a while until she got it to sound the way she wanted.
Elle ne va pas conduire une voiture qu'un gamin a bricolé.
She's not driving a car a child put together.
Et Robert a bricolé dans son atelier, et je crois que j'ai fait une lessive.
And Robert did some work in his den, and I think that I did some laundry or something.
Mais, faute de vision d'avenir, faute de savoir poser les bonnes questions, on a tergiversé, on a marchandé et finalement on a bricolé à Nice.
But, without a vision of the future, without knowing how to ask the right questions, we ended up with dithering, horse-trading and, finally, tinkering in Nice.
On a ensuite évité le débat, on a bricolé et manipulé afin d'imposer un traité encore plus fédéraliste, malgré le "non" des Français et des Hollandais.
Then debate was avoided, things were tinkered with and tweaked in order to push through an even more federalist treaty despite a 'no' from the French and Dutch peoples.
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