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Meddling means getting involved in other people's business when you're not wanted or needed there — giving opinions, trying to control things, or interfering. It always sounds a bit negative, like the person should mind their own business instead.
多管閒事(的)
組成meddle + -ing
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
meddlingadj
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That meddles.
meddlingnoun
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unwanted interference
- It had been well, if these dishonest meddlings with existing books had stopped here.
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An instance of meddling.
- I learned more about it than most people because triffids were my job, and the firm I worked for was intimately, if not very gracefully, concerned in their public appearance. Nevertheless, their true origin still remains obscure. My own belief, for what that is worth, is that they were the outcome of a series of ingenious biological meddlings - and very likely accidental, at that.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。