Manipulation
[mə,nɪpjʊ'leɪʃ(ə)n] or [mə,nɪpjʊ'leʃən]
解释:
(noun.) exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage; 'his manipulation of his friends was scandalous'.
手打:梅尔瓦--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act or process of manipulating, or the state of being manipulated; the act of handling work by hand; use of the hands, in an artistic or skillful manner, in science or art.
(n.) The use of the hands in mesmeric operations.
(n.) Artful management; as, the manipulation of political bodies; sometimes, a management or treatment for purposes of deception or fraud.
手打:普里西拉
同义词及近义词：
n. Manual operations.
克莱尔手打
例句:
- To charge that the various activities of gardening, weaving, construction in wood, manipulation of metals, cooking, etc. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Joseph Holtzapffel in his learned work on _Turning and Mechanical Manipulation_, gives a list of old publications describing lathes for turning both wood and metal. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Very few of the people who travel through the tube are probably aware of such manipulation. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- By the manipulation of a key for closing the electric circuit the short or long impulse may be sent, at the pleasure of the operator. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- She began moulding the wax; and it was evident from her manner of manipulation that she was endeavouring to give it some preconceived form. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Manipulation in this case could not have been injurious, as the plants have separated sexes. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- And, finally, the makers of America had no knowledge of the complexities of vote manipulation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Smaller developments of lights are worked out by careful manipulation of the etching fluid with small sable brushes. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Edison, then only twenty-one, had less business experience than the promoter, through whose manipulation he soon lost his financial interest in this early ticker enterprise. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Not infrequently he is actively engaged in the manipulation of some compound of special intricacy, whose results might be illuminative of obscure facts not patent to others than himself. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- It will be readily understood that numerous manipulations of this kind constitute no small items in the cost of producing high-grade watches. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
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