Tamper
['tæmpə] or ['tæmpɚ]
解释:
(verb.) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly; 'Someone tampered with the documents on my desk'; 'The reporter fiddle with the facts'.
整理:鲁道夫--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.
(n.) An instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron.
(v. i.) To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease.
(v. i.) To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing.
(v. i.) To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery.
整理:梅
同义词及近义词:
v. n. [1]. Meddle, intermeddle, dabble, have to do (in a tentative way).[2]. Intrigue, deal secretly.
布鲁诺录入
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Meddle, intermeddle, dabble, intrigue, deal_secretly,[See INTERPOSE]
埃斯特拉编辑
解释:
v.i. to try the temper of: to try little experiments without necessity or authority: to meddle: to practise secretly and unfairly.—n. Tam′perer.
整理:保罗
例句:
- It would be an ill return to tamper lightly, and without due consideration, with this young lady's affections. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- How dare you, sir,' said Mr Boffin, 'tamper, unknown to me, with this young lady? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I never detected a sign of the medicine bottles being tampered with, I never saw Mrs. Rubelle say a word to the Count, or the Count to her. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He had nearly fainted when we found that the papers had undoubtedly been tampered with. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- And he may have tampered with the patient--he may have disobeyed my orders. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- I cannot allow the examination to be held if one of the papers has been tampered with. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- He put this jumper slyly in contact with the wires--and just four lamps went out on the section he tampered with. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The dead man's papers had not been tampered with. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- About 1815 inventors commenced to produce devices to show with certainty if a lock had been tampered with. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- It well suits brutes like thee to be tampering and trinketing with hellish cures, and to be giving your labour to the sons of mischief. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Among the latest inventions are electrical connections with the safe, whereby tampering therewith alarms one or more watchmen at a near station. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- I won't play any more--you've been tampering with the dice, he shouted. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Someone has been tampering with it, he said. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
整理:李奥娜