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词汇 meddled
释义 meddled
past simple and past participle ofmeddle
meddle
verb[ I ]
 disapprovinguk /ˈmed.əl/ us /ˈmed.əl/
to try to change or have an influence on things that are not your responsibility, especially by criticizing in a damaging or annoying way: 干涉,干预;管闲事
My sister's always meddling in other people's affairs.我姐姐总是管别人的闲事。
People shouldn't meddle with things they don't understand.自己不懂的事情,就不该去掺和。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Getting involved for one's own benefit or against others' will
a piece/slice of the actionidiom
act
action
bandwagon
be in bed withidiom
bed
engagement
get
get in on something
get/muscle in on the actidiom
have a finger in the pieidiom
horn in
interfere
interference
intrude
intrusion
jump/climb/get on the bandwagonidiom
non-interference
snoot
stick your snoot in/into (something)idiom

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Examples of meddled


meddled

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


The government continuously meddled in judicial enquiries.
They feel that art colleges are being meddled with by those who do not understand them.
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That has not happened because politicians have meddled in order to create the monopoly that has held down the price.
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Then when you have meddled once there is nothing to stop you meddling again.
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We will not know that until we know whether the criteria are being fiddled with and meddled with.
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Representatives of charitable organisations took this-work up, and they not only meddled unnecessarily, but they muddled most severely.
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They have meddled with coal and with railways, and disaster has resulted.
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The only result of such an authority would be that it meddled in many local matters in an attempt to find a role for itself.
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They were all due to lawyers, who meddled with war of which they knew nothing.
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All that is at great expense; probably more expensive than if we had not meddled about with interest rates.
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Our chemical and pharmaceutical industries have been the least meddled with and the least subsidised since the war, yet they remain among our most successful.
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The steel industry has suffered too often in the past 10 to 20 years from politicians who have meddled and deceived the steel workers in my constituency and elsewhere.
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They meddled not with politics.
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They have meddled in our affairs at every turn, while angrily rejecting the thought that they should conduct their domestic affairs in a civilised and democratic manner.
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They meddled and muddled throughout the winter.
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