in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 mess about
- 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.
- We were just messing around playing with paint...
我们只是玩玩油彩,打发时间而已。 - Stop messing about and go and buy one...
别再磨蹭了,快去买一个。
- 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.
- 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。 - 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。
- PHRASAL VERB 胡闹;瞎闹
If someone is messing around or messing about, they are behaving in a joking or silly way.
- I thought she was messing about.
我认为她是在胡闹。
- 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.
- 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”。 - I think they've been messed around far too much.
我认为他们被耍得太过头了。