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The law does not meddle unduly with a person's private life.

法律不会过多地介入个人的私生活。

▷meddle ['med(ə)l]

【释义】

a) to try to change or have an influence on things which are not your responsibility, especially by criticizing in a damaging or annoying way

b) To meddle is to interfere. You can meddle in someone else's affairs, and you can meddle with someone else's things. Either way, you're messing with someone else's stuff and she probably doesn't like it.

v. 干涉,干预;管闲事

My brother's always meddling in other people's affairs.

我弟弟总是管别人的闲事。

People shouldn't meddle with things they don't understand.

自己不懂的事情，就不该去掺和。