in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 mess about
										- PHRASAL VERB 无所事事;混日子;闲荡
 If you mess around or mess about, you spend time doing things without any particular purpose or without achieving anything.- We were just messing around playing with paint...
 我们只是玩玩油彩,打发时间而已。
- Stop messing about and go and buy one...
 别再磨蹭了,快去买一个。
 
- PHRASAL VERB 乱弄;瞎摆弄
 If you say that someone is messing around with or messing about with something, you mean that they are interfering with it in a harmful way.- Boys and girls will enjoy messing about with any kind of machine.
 男孩和女孩会喜欢摆弄各种机械装置。
- I'd like to know who's been messing about with the pram.
 我想知道是谁在瞎摆弄这辆婴儿车。
 
- PHRASAL VERB 胡闹;瞎闹
 If someone is messing around or messing about, they are behaving in a joking or silly way.- I thought she was messing about.
 我认为她是在胡闹。
 
- PHRASAL VERB 恶劣地对待;玩弄
 If you mess someone around or mess them about, you treat them badly, for example by not being honest with them, or by continually changing plans which affect them.- Davison had pulled out of a move to his old club because they had 'messed him about'...
 戴维森已经打消了返回原来的俱乐部的念头,因为他们“糊弄他”。
- I think they've been messed around far too much.
 我认为他们被耍得太过头了。