Today, Americans are?finding their own tips and tricks? ?for fixing malfunctioning devices with supplies as simple as paper and glue.

But it’s one of many low- tech fixes for high-tech failures that people without engineering degrees have discovered, often out of desperation and shared.

They lack talent to fix their deepening problems.

They haven't fixed all the shortcomings of print books.

It must have taken you a long time to fix up all these book shelves.

Doris fixed up some of the bookshelves.

Fixing the time for the designer's latest fashion show.

Well, I always loved racing bikes and fixing them.

Ask the man to fix the refrigerator.

Maybe you should have it fixed.

Don't spend a paragraph on how your uncle John tried to fix the problem and couldn't.

For example, there’s a problem that needs to be addressed immediately, resulting in a dispute over who should be the one to fix it.

The fundamental fix—reshaping how care is delivered and how doctors are paid in a wasteful, abnormal system—is likely to be achieved only through trial and error and incremental ( ' , 漸進的) gains.

The answer is that no one has an easy fix for rising medical costs.

Young people grow up without developing the skills to fix things around the house," says Richard Curtin, director of the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.

But some of their fixes have made the problem worse.

To ask him to fix the dictating machine

Do you think you could come and fix it for me?

The woman can try to fix it herself

Imaging how you both feel if she fixed the turkey dinner or something.

The suitcase can be fixed in time.

Can you have it fixed by next Tuesday

The suitcase is not worth fixing.

I know, but there's always the feeling that if it isn't broke, don't fix it.

If we want to fix the problem of the income gap, first we have to understand it.

The company even provides mail-order repair kits and online videos, so that customers can learn how to fix a pair of jeans at home.

The fundamental fix—reshaping how care is delivered and how doctors are paid in a wasteful, abnormal system—is likely to be achieved only through trial and error and incremental gains.

Wadhams says there is no easy technological fix to climate change.