1. | Primitive man quickly learned how to manipulate tools. |
| 原始人很快学会了使用工具。
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2. | She uses her charm to manipulate people. |
| 她利用其魅力左右他人。
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3. | As Eugene Ferguson has pointed out, "A technologist thinks about objects that can not be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions: they are dealt with in his mind by a visual, nonverbal process...The designer and the inventor.., are able to assemble and manipulate in their minds devices that as yet do not exist". |
| 正如尤金.弗格森所指出的那样:"一个技术专家思考那些不能被简化成 能被清楚的语言描述的东西。这些东西在他的思维中是通过一种视觉的、 非语言表述的过程宋处理的……设计者和发明者……能够在他们的脑中 装配并操作那些还不存在的装置。"
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4. | manipulate the gears and levers of a machine |
| 熟练操纵机器的排挡和变速杆
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5. | a clever politician who knows how to manipulate public opinion |
| 善于操纵舆论的聪明的政治家
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