美 [mes əˈraʊnd]
浪费时间；胡闹；瞎搞：不认真对待某事，浪费时间或胡闹。
交往；调情：与某人交往或调情。
mess around // [ messing messed messes ]
动词词组 If you mess around, you spend time doing things without any particular purpose or without achieving anything. 混时间
We were just messing around playing with paint.
我们瞎混时间，玩玩油彩。
动词词组 If you say that someone is messing around with something, you mean that they are interfering with it in a harmful way. 乱弄
"Don't be stupid," Max snapped. "You don't want to go messing around with bears."
“别傻了，”马克斯厉声说。“你不会去跟熊斗着玩儿吧。”
动词词组 If someone is messing around, they are behaving in a joking or silly way. 胡闹
I thought she was messing around.
我想她是在胡闹。
do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
同义词： putter / potter / tinker / monkey / monkey around / muck about / muck around
... 生死关头了it's do-or-die for me 弄混 mess around 运动鞋 sneakers ...
... windup终结 mess around浪费时间 lark about鬼混胡闹, 行为不负责任...
浪费时间；一片狼籍；弄混
When they decide to have a party they don't mess around.
他们决定搞聚会，便会迅速操办起来。
Some young people simply mess around all day when they are supposed to be at school.
一些年轻人不在学校学习却整天东游西荡。
No need to mess around with silly timers.
没有必要将时间浪费在无聊的计时器上。
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."
他所有的内阁大臣和官员们,都被迫出席拷打的场面,这么做是以儆效尤,"你们最好别到处惹是生非"
欧洲文明课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
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.
但与之同存的另一种观点,是英国最具代表性的托马斯·霍布斯提出的,他经历过英国内战,且认为君主不该滥用手中权力,你需要的是一个有权利的君主,但这其中有一些内在的概念
欧洲文明课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
Why would a company with those juicy gross margins mess around with low-margin hardware?
Ms. LATIFAH: (Singing) I'm going to mess around and flip the scene into reverse.
Away from work, I ski, mess around in boats, spoil my grandchildren, and tinker with digital toys.