| 单词 | meddle |
| 释义 | med·dle transitive verb 1. obsolete 2. dialect intransitive verb 1. obsolete 2. a. archaic b. < the driving spirit of malice which forced him to meddle in other people's lives — Carl Van Doren > < history and psychology can meddle too much with the meanings of art — Times Literary Supplement > Synonyms: < as Minister of Finance, Chari had no business to meddle in political affairs — Christine Weston > < it is inexpedient to meddle with questions of State in a land where men are highly paid to work them out for you — Rudyard Kipling > interfere suggests taking part obtrusively and officiously in the affairs of others so as to hinder, frustrate, check, or defeat < he would not allow management or labor to interfere with increasing production — Collier's Year Book > < when a child persistently interferes with other children or spoils their pleasures, the obvious penalty is banishment — Bertrand Russell > intermeddle combines connotations and denotations of meddle and interfere < a petition to parliament sets forth how all kinds of unlearned men intermeddle with the practice of physic — G.G.Coulton > tamper suggests unwarranted alteration or change, ill-advised readjustment, meddlesome experimentation, or improper influence < he would suddenly leave his guests and rush back to town to see that the door had not been tampered with — Oscar Wilde > < these blank notes were slipped into the note case when examiners came along and the books were tampered to indicate that the notes were bearing interest — W.A.White > < money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril — L.P.Smith > |
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