muck around

• 指做愚蠢或无意义的事、虚度时间或无所事事；也指胡闹、闲混。

A phrasal verb used to indicate behaving in a silly or unproductive way, or to waste time by doing something aimlessly.

不可数 · 不及物 · 短语动词，不带宾语

1. Waste time or be idleinformalbritish

   To spend time doing things that are not useful or productive; to mess about.

   虚度光阴

   • Stop mucking around and get to work.
   • The kids were mucking around in the garden instead of doing their homework.
   • We mucked around for an hour before deciding what to do.

   同义词dawdledilly-dallyfool aroundhang aroundidleloiterlollygagmess aroundputter

   反义词laborstrivetoilwork

2. Interfere or tamperinformalbritish

   To handle or adjust something in a careless or unskilled way, often causing problems.

   乱动或瞎搞

   • Who's been mucking around with the thermostat?
   • Don't muck around with the settings on my computer.
   • He mucked around with the engine and now it won't start.

   同义词meddlemess aroundtampertinker

   反义词adjustcarecorrectfixhandlemanagerepairtend

基本动词muck