| 单词 | muck about/around |
| 释义 | muck about/aroundmuck about/around phrasal verbphr v British EnglishBrE informal a) BEHAVEto behave in a silly way, especially when you should be working or paying attention to something 胡闹；鬼混；闲荡 SYN mess around Stop mucking about and listen! 别再胡闹了，好好听着！ Some of the boys were mucking around on bikes. 有些男孩骑着自行车到处游荡。 b) BEHAVE muck somebody about/around to cause trouble for someone, especially by changing your mind a lot or not doing what you promised to do 〔尤指出尔反尔〕耍弄某人，给某人找麻烦 SYN mess somebody around The company kept mucking us around and changing the price. 这家公司不断地改动价格，耍弄我们。 Examples from the Corpus muck about/around• Blondel then requested the messenger to stop mucking about.• Not now the poor old feller's dead. - Ben, stop mucking about.• They're mostly Northerners, and they don't want to muck about.• You can come up and let yourself go - shout about and that and muck about.• I know he mucks about a bit, but he's a good lad really.• And, as any football-mad kid knows, there is nothing as embarrassing as mucking about in last season's kit.• Not all managers want their employees mucking around with decisions.• To McDonough, a stubby 280-pounder, the charm of elective office was not mucking about with papers and figures. → muck about/around at muck2(PHRASAL VERB) |
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