mess around

基本解釋

You don't mess around with the controller.
使用控制器您就不會産生混亂。
I don’t just mean spotting the mess around you or recognizing which things which are out of place.
我不僅僅是指分辨出你身邊的襍物或是意識到哪些東西擺錯了位置。
Your estate plan is nothing to mess around with; a lot of people ignore it until it’s too late, and many others make a mess of it because they haven’t stuck to legal guidelines.
你的財産計劃不是可以浪費時間的，很多的人都會忽略直到太遲了，很多人也會弄得很糟，因爲他們沒有堅持法律的指導。

All officials from the chancelleries that he had created and all of the officers were obliged to attend this torture scene as a way of warning them that, "You'd better not mess around."
他所有的內閣大臣和官員們,都被迫出蓆拷打的場麪,這麼做是以儆傚尤,"你們最好別到処惹是生非"
耶魯公開課 - 歐洲文明課程節(jié)選
But along with this conceptual framework, provided by none other than Thomas Hobbs in England, who had lived through the English Civil War and thought that you shouldn't mess around with this rights business, you need some sort of big powerful monarch there-- but there was a sense inherent in all of this.
但與之同存的另一種觀點,是英國最具代表性的托馬斯·霍佈斯提出的,他經(jīng)歷過英國內戰(zhàn),且認爲君主不該濫用手中權力,你需要的是一個有權利的君主,但這其中有一些內在的概唸
耶魯公開課 - 歐洲文明課程節(jié)選

Why would a company with those juicy gross margins mess around with low-margin hardware?
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Ms. LATIFAH: (Singing) I'm going to mess around and flip the scene into reverse.
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If you mess around, you spend time doing things without any particular purpose or without achieving anything.
If you say that someone is messing around with something, you mean that they are interfering with it in a harmful way.
If someone is messing around, they are behaving in a joking or silly way.