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词汇 tamper
释义 tamper
verb[ I ]
uk /ˈtæm.pər/ us /ˈtæm.pɚ/
to touch or make changes to something that you should not, usually without enough knowledge of how it works or when you are trying to damage it: 胡乱摆弄;擅自改动;蓄意破坏
I could see immediately that the lock had been tampered with.我一下子就看出锁已被人动过了。
Tampering with pipelines could result in ruptures or fires.
to speak to and try to influence someone involved in a legal case:
She is charged with official misconduct and tampering with witnesses.
A previous trial was stopped owing to fears of someone tampering with the jury.
Poll workers are trained to recognize signs of machines that had been tampered with.
Their defence suffered on the road in Europe last season, but the manager may decide that tonight's game is no time to start tampering.
He pleaded guilty to tampering with a grand jury witness.
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tamper | American Dictionary


tamper
verb[ I ]
us/ˈtæm·pər/
to touch or change something without permission or without enough knowledge of how it works:
Don’t tamper with the boiler.

tamper | Business English


tamper
verb[ I ]
uk /ˈtæmpər/us
to touch or make changes to something when you should not, especially when this is illegal:
tamper with sthThey pleaded guilty to tampering with a government record.
There were not many employees who had the opportunity and capability of tampering with the products.
The team is doing very well so I resisted the temptation to tamper too much.

Examples of tamper


tamper
Their patient efforts included the forging of and tampering with credentials.
The kanun did, however, espouse a more _ detailed set of punishments than the shari_ / a and tampered with principles of legal procedure.
There are punishments for tampering with telegraph lines and messages, for forging money, and for illegally printing forged documents.
We are aware that indicators, once adopted, are not meant to be tampered with selectively.
When duration is tampered with, power of historical witness lessens and the authority of the artwork is weakened.
Intuitively, a channel type is immediately tampering if it emits non-trivial information at the time of interaction.
Integrity has to do with making sure that the agent's code, data or communication exchanges have not been tampered with, altered or destroyed, either intentionally or by accident.
You may think that this is obvious, but think again, and look at the tendency of authors to minimise their (small) failures, by tampering with definitions.
The whole question of tampering with the principle of ritual itself - ritual which guarantees the stability, design, and unity of society - inevitably formed part of my investigation.
Product tampering incidents lack some of the dramatic imagery that accompanies the other two hypothetical cases, and can therefore be addressed before the event becomes part of popular culture.
Even if a type is not immediately tampering, an action of that type can have a non-trivial effect on the environment via an immediately tampering type inside.
The presence of two stanzas with refrain - the defining feature of the couplets drives to the generic essence of the piece, and it was not to be tampered with.
I have not considered these partially different melodies as ' different', since it would appear that the usual tune was merely tampered with by a local scribe.
The processed drugs were packed and officials applied a seal on each package to guarantee that its contents were checked and that no one tampered with it.
Generally speaking, the ammunition stored in open dumps is not dangerous unless tampered with.
From the
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