Manipulate

(verb.) treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed.

(verb.) hold something in one's hands and move it.

(verb.) control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage; 'She manipulates her boss'; 'She is a very controlling mother and doesn't let her children grow up'; 'The teacher knew how to keep the class in line'; 'she keeps in line'.

(verb.) influence or control shrewdly or deviously; 'He manipulated public opinion in his favor'.

手打:威爾

• It is his duty to strengthen and reduce and otherwise manipulate the plates so that they will, when finally printed, have the desired result. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• The knife and fork, so contemptuously flung aside a month before, Tarzan now manipulated as exquisitely as did the polished D'Arnot. 埃德加·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• A pair of small front steering wheels was arranged to turn about a vertical axis and was manipulated by a handle bar. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
• They quarried the clay, manipulated it, constructed and decorated the ware, burned it in a rude furnace and wore it out in a hundred uses. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• One curious fact I discovered as I watched his thoughts was that the outer doors are manipulated by telepathic means. 埃德加·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• After a time he brought the mass to Edison, and said: There's something wrong about this, for it crumbles even after manipulating it with my fingers. 弗蘭克·劉易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• By thus manipulating the various solvents you will be enabled probably to separate the crude asphalt into several distinct hydrocarbons. 弗蘭克·劉易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• A maximum reading can then be made by manipulating the flexible connections, and this will show whether the two circuits are in accord. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• The switchboard for manipulating the wires was about thirty-four inches square. 弗蘭克·劉易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• The great Lunette, see Fig. 195, changes entirely the method of manipulating the telescope, and also, in a measure, its principle of action, so as to avoid some of these difficulties. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
• Edison at once suggested using the steam whistle of the locomotive, and by manipulating the valve conversed the short and long outbursts of shrill sound into the Morse code. 弗蘭克·劉易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.

校對:馬蒂