mess around

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 mess about


1. PHRASAL VERB 无所事事;混日子;闲荡
   If you mess around or mess about, you spend time doing things without any particular purpose or without achieving anything.
   1. We were just messing around playing with paint...
      我们只是玩玩油彩，打发时间而已。
   2. Stop messing about and go and buy one...
      别再磨蹭了，快去买一个。
2. PHRASAL VERB 乱弄;瞎摆弄
   If you say that someone is messing around with or messing about with something, you mean that they are interfering with it in a harmful way.
   1. Boys and girls will enjoy messing about with any kind of machine.
      男孩和女孩会喜欢摆弄各种机械装置。
   2. I'd like to know who's been messing about with the pram.
      我想知道是谁在瞎摆弄这辆婴儿车。
3. PHRASAL VERB 胡闹;瞎闹
   If someone is messing around or messing about, they are behaving in a joking or silly way.
   1. I thought she was messing about.
      我认为她是在胡闹。
4. PHRASAL VERB 恶劣地对待;玩弄
   If you mess someone around or mess them about, you treat them badly, for example by not being honest with them, or by continually changing plans which affect them.
   1. Davison had pulled out of a move to his old club because they had 'messed him about'...
      戴维森已经打消了返回原来的俱乐部的念头，因为他们“糊弄他”。
   2. I think they've been messed around far too much.
      我认为他们被耍得太过头了。

1. We were just messing around playing with paint
   我们只是玩玩油彩，打发时间而已。
2. I think they've been messed around far too much.
   我认为他们被耍得太过头了。
3. He immediately wanted one," I just thought they were neat. I just wanted to mess around with one. "
   他立马就想要一台：“我只是觉得里面的东西太规整了，我想弄一台来搞搞乱。”
4. Similarly, if you need to update the look and feel of a certain page, you work with the views. You don't mess around with the controller.
   同样地，如果您需要更新特定页面的外观，可以使用视图，而不用与控制器打交道。
5. I use it here largely because it's a complete site that already exists that I can mess around with and not step on somebody else's copyright.
   我在这里使用它很大程度上是因为它是已经存在的完整站点，我可以随意改动，并且不会侵犯其他人的版权。
6. That works great if you're willing to mess around with the source code, but you don't have to.
   如果您愿意花时间修改源代码，这种方法当然很好，但并不一定要如此。
7. You don't mess around with the controller.
   使用控制器您就不会产生混乱。
8. We don't have time to mess around.
   我们没有时间浪费。
9. All they every do is go uptown and mess around.
   所有他们所做的事就只是围着镇子走来走去。
10. Don't mess around with my desk.
    别把我的桌子搞得一团糟。
11. Liked to mess around with pals on days off.
    我有很多网友，其中有许多每天都聊。
12. Torsten: Do what you like, but I'm too busy to mess around with coupons and rebates.
    托斯特：去做你喜欢的事。但我太忙，没时间去弄优惠券和折扣券。
13. Come on, you guys, start doing some work; don't just mess around all day!
    得啦，你们这些家伙，开始干点事吧，别整天闲混了。
14. Don't mess around with it again, okay?
    别再在这个上浪费时间，好吗？
15. Mess around, as in a liquid or paste.
    混合起来，在液体或浆糊。
16. Don't mess around back there unless you mean business.
    别乱动我后面，除非你想要“干嘛”。
17. When you work, you don't mess around.
    干活时，不要瞎胡闹。
18. Anyway, don't mess around with older women.
    不管怎样，不要跟比你大的女人鬼混。
19. If I'm on tour I wake up around2pm and I mess around on the bus writing songs until we go to sound check and play our shows.
    如果在巡演中的话我下午2点左右起床，在巴士上写歌直到我们去排练。
20. Mess around was a positive step for us, ray.
    “胡搞瞎搞”我们走对了路，雷。
21. As the tool softens due to heat, it wears and Breaks down at the cutting edge or face. Don't mess around with sharp knives!
    在刃口因高温而软化的同时，刀具刃口便开始磨耗并损坏。不要摆弄刀口锋利的刀！
22. Could have been a reaI mess around here if I didn't have that tubing for tourniquets.
    要不是有那个橡胶带止血，那真会是一团糟。
23. All he wanted was to mess around with her and have no one know.
    他想要的就是在别人不知情的情况下玩弄她。
24. If you mess around with her, you'll get your fingers burned.
    如果你跟她乱来，准会吃亏。
25. They can tear down all this mess around here.
    他们会把这些乱七八糟的东西都撕掉。
26. Some young people simply mess around all day when they are supposed to be at school.
    一些年轻人不在学校却整天东游西荡。
27. But I'm not just going to mess around with it.
    不过我也不想惹麻烦。
28. It is a full featured simulator and a lot of fun to mess around with.
    这是一个功能齐全的模拟器和无穷的乐趣，以更动。
29. Don't do it. don't mess around.
    别做傻事。别再乱搞。
30. Unfortunately, human psychology is such that hasty workers and true believers will always mess around with the problem of earthquake prediction that fascinates them.
    遗憾的是，由于心理学上的原因，草率的工作者和诚心实意的信徒总会搞乱使他们着迷的地震预测的问题。

verb

1. do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
   1. The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house

   Synonym:    putterpottertinkermonkeymonkey aroundmuck aboutmuck around