vt.

1. 戲弄，逗弄；取笑；欺負
   The dog may bite you if you keep teasing him.

   要是你不停地逗惹那條狗，它也許會咬你。

   He hates to be teased about his balding head.

   他不喜歡人家取笑他的禿頭。

2. 挑逗
   He suspected that Laura was teasing him.

   他懷疑羅拉是在挑逗他。

3. 哄；向……強求
   She has been teasing her mother all morning for a new dress.

   她整個上午纏著她媽媽要一件新的洋裝。

4. 梳理（毛，麻等）；使起毛

vi.

1. 戲弄；取笑
   Don't take it seriously -- he was only teasing.

   別當真，他只是在戲弄你。

n.[C]

1. 戲弄；取笑[S]
2. 愛戲弄人的人；愛糾纏的小孩
   She is a big tease, but she doesn't mean anything by it.

   她很愛戲弄人，但她並沒有什麼惡意。

3. 挑逗者
4. 賣弄風騷的女孩
   Be careful, that girl is a real tease; she's the town heart-breaker.

   小心，那是一個愛賣弄風騷的女孩，她是鎮上專傷男人心的人。

v.

1. playfully make fun of or attempt to provoke.
   ▸tempt sexually.
2. gently pull or comb (tangled wool, hair, etc.) into separate strands.
   ▸chiefly N. Amer. backcomb (hair).
   ▸archaic comb (the surface of woven cloth) to raise a nap.
3. (tease something out) find something out by searching through a mass of information.

n.

1. an act of teasing.
2. a person who teases.
   ▸a person who tempts someone sexually with no intention of satisfying the desire aroused.