| 词组 | meddle |
| 释义 | meddle When meddle is used with a preposition, it often is followed by with: • ... meddling with matters which lay beyond the sphere of the Estates of the realm —T. B. Macaulay, The History of England, vol. I, 1849 • ... it is inexpedient to meddle with questions of State in a land where men are highly paid to work them out for you —Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills, 1888 • ... she did not like other people to meddle with her property —Edmund Wilson, New Yorker, 5 June 1971 Meddle is also used with in and into: • ... not in a condition to meddle nationally in any war —Claude G. Bowers, The Young Jefferson 1743-1789, 1945 • Congress ... has meddled in affairs that are properly within the jurisdiction of the courts —New Yorker, 10 Apr. 1971 • ... to abstain from the temptation to meddle into the inner affairs of other departments —ACLS Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 2, 1954 We also note that meddle in and meddle into often have affairs as their object; it appears that meddle with does not. |
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