(1) ①toy with意为“摆弄，玩弄，抚弄”，或是为了自娱，或是出于紧张。
- All the time he was talking, he was toying with a bunch of keys.
他说话的时候手里一直不停地摆弄着一串钥匙。
②toy with还有“不太认真地考虑(做某事的念头)”之意。
- Father often toys with the thought/idea of going to live on a tropical island.
父亲常会冒出去热带岛屿上居住的念头。
③toy with又指“玩弄(某人特别是异性的感情)”。
- He's never mentioned marriage, and I'm beginning to think he's just toying with me.
他从未提起过结婚一事，我开始认为他只是在玩弄我的感情。 - It's immoral to toy with a woman's feelings.
玩弄女人的感情是不道德的。
(2) ①fiddle with也有“摆弄，抚弄，摸弄”之意，常指无意识或无目的的动作，是非正式用语。
- It's so annoying, the way she keeps fiddling (about) with her hair.
她老是抚弄自己的头发的样子真令人讨厌。
②fiddle with还可作“(胡乱)拨弄，摆弄”解，如摆弄机器的零件以寻找故障，这样做常是没有目标的。
- Sometimes when our electric fan doesn't work, I can fiddle with the parts and it comes right!
有时我们的电扇不转了，我胡乱拨弄几下零件，它就好了！
③fiddle with还有“弄虚作假，做手脚”的意思。
- Someone has been fiddling with the accounts, there's some money missing.
有人在账目上做了手脚，有些钱不见了。
（拓展学习：小词详解 | fiddle）
(3) fidget with意为“不安地摆弄”，常是因为紧张所致。
- All through the interview, the young man was fidgeting with his tie.
在整个面试过程中，这位年轻人都紧张地一直不停地摆弄他的领带。
（拓展学习：小词详解 | fidget）
(4) ①play with意为“玩弄，摆弄，玩”，常常是为了自娱，有时也可是紧张所致，常是无意识的行为。
- Play with your own toys, don't take your brother's.
玩你自己的玩具，别拿你弟弟的。 - All the time he was talking, he was playing with his tie.
他说话时手一直不停地摆弄领带。
②play with也可表示“跟……玩”。
- Don't play cards with him, he's always playing tricks.
别和他玩牌，他总是耍花招。
③play with还可表示“戏耍、玩弄(某人或某人的感情)”。
- He's never mentioned marriage, and I'm beginning to think he's just playing with me.
他从未提到结婚，我开始认为他只是在玩弄我。 - It's immoral for a man to play with a woman's affections.
玩弄女人的感情是不道德的。
(5) play fast and loose (with)意为“反复无常，玩弄某人(的感情)，把……当儿戏”。
- It's wrong of him to play fast and loose with the girl's affections.
他玩弄那女孩的感情，真不应该。 - You can't play fast and loose with the contract we made.
你不能把我们之间的协定当儿戏。
(6) twiddle with指“摆弄，摸弄”，常是无意识或无目的的动作，有时也可是有意识的“拨弄”，与fiddle with, tinker with相近。
- Perhaps if you twiddle with the control for a few minutes, you could make the television work better.
你再多拨弄一会儿遥控器，说不定能使电视工作得更好。 - She has a most annoying habit of twiddling with her hair all the time she's talking.
她有个非常令人烦的习惯，说话时总是摆弄头发。
(7) tinker with指“摆弄，拨弄，笨拙地修理”，如：无目标地摆弄机器，以便找出故障，与fiddle with, twiddle with相近。
- He always had the ability to tinker with an engine and set it going again, even when he didn't know what was wrong.
他总能把发动机随便摆弄几下就能让它恢复正常，即使有时不知发生了什么故障。
(8) ①dally with指“摆弄，玩弄，戏弄，漫不经心地对待，不认真地考虑、产生……念头”，是非正式用语，与toy with, play with(表示此意时)相近，可以互换。
- Father often dallies/toys/plays with the thought of going to live on a tropical island.
父亲常会冒出去热带岛屿居住的念头。 - While Mary was talking with him, Tom was dallying with his pen.
在玛丽和汤姆讲话时，他一直摆弄着他的钢笔。
②dally with还有“调戏，玩弄”之意，一般指对异性，多用于口语，多用主动句式，有时也用被动语态。
- Never dally with a woman whom you don't intend to marry.
如你无意和一个女人结婚，就不要玩弄她的感情。 - It's wrong for a man to dally with a woman's affections.
对于一个男人来说，玩弄女人的感情是不道德的。 - He is not a man to be dallied with .
他不是一个可以随便戏弄的人。
(9) ①trifle with可作“不认真地考虑；起……的念头”解，与toy with, play with, dally with在此意上相近，可以换用。
- He often trifles with (the idea of ) going abroad to settle.
他常有到国外定居的念头。
②trifle with还有“小看，不重视，玩弄，摆弄”的意思。
- You shouldn't trifle with your health.
你不能忽视你的健康。 - He sat there, trifling with a bunch of keys.
他坐在那里，摆弄着一串钥匙。 - He's not a man to be trifled with .
他是一个不可小看的人。 - It's wrong of you to trifle with the girl's affections.
你玩弄这个女孩的感情是不对的。
(10) flirt with意为“与(异性)调情；不认真考虑，玩弄”。
- He wasn't serious about that girl. He was only flirting with her.
他对那女孩不是认真的，只不过是和她调情而已。 - He's been flirting with the idea of going to Europe.
他一直想去欧洲，但也只是想想而已。 - You're flirting with danger, taking risks like that.
你那样子冒险，是把危险当儿戏。
(11) sport with可作“跟……嬉戏”解，较正式，有“与……开玩笑，玩弄”之意。
- You can see the big seals sporting with their young ones in the water.
你能看到大海豹在水里和小海豹们嬉戏。 - It's unkind to sport/dally/trifle with a young girl's feelings like that.
那样玩弄一个年轻女孩的感情是不善之举。 - Don't cry, little one, he is sporting with you.
小东西，不要哭了，他在和你开玩笑呢。
