Tamper

(verb.) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly; 'Someone tampered with the documents on my desk'; 'The reporter fiddle with the facts'.

整理:鲁道夫

• It would be an ill return to tamper lightly, and without due consideration, with this young lady's affections. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• How dare you, sir,' said Mr Boffin, 'tamper, unknown to me, with this young lady? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I never detected a sign of the medicine bottles being tampered with, I never saw Mrs. Rubelle say a word to the Count, or the Count to her. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• He had nearly fainted when we found that the papers had undoubtedly been tampered with. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• And he may have tampered with the patient--he may have disobeyed my orders. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I cannot allow the examination to be held if one of the papers has been tampered with. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He put this jumper slyly in contact with the wires--and just four lamps went out on the section he tampered with. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The dead man's papers had not been tampered with. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• About 1815 inventors commenced to produce devices to show with certainty if a lock had been tampered with. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It well suits brutes like thee to be tampering and trinketing with hellish cures, and to be giving your labour to the sons of mischief. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Among the latest inventions are electrical connections with the safe, whereby tampering therewith alarms one or more watchmen at a near station. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I won't play any more--you've been tampering with the dice, he shouted. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Someone has been tampering with it, he said. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.

整理:李奥娜