0 to rub and press someone's body with regular repeated movements, in order to relax them or to reduce stiffness or pain in the joints (= places where two bones are connected) or muscles -- 按摩，推拿
Would you massage my shoulders? 你能按摩一下我的肩膀嗎？
1 to try to make facts or numbers appear better than they really are in order to deceive someone -- 虛報；竄改；美化
2 the activity of rubbing or pressing parts of someone's body in order to make them relax or to stop their muscles hurting -- 按摩；推拿
Is not the wide talk of profits for companies now largely fiction and a matter of opinion, with figures being massaged by standard accountancy techniques?
They wanted unemployment figures to fall, so they changed the system and massaged the figures.
They must be not merely a means of creatively massaging unemployment figures.
The massaged figure of ·5 million people unemployed is being increased at the rate of about 20,000 a month.
They may use that terminology but there cannot be massaging of notified vacancies.
The accusation is that, to get the count down, the rough sleepers unit has been deliberately massaging those people who are sleeping rough.
Of course, if enough changes are made in the unemployment calculations the figures can be massaged downwards.
There are also concerns that the strict financial criteria for membership will be massaged for political reasons, to the disadvantage of the deutschmark.
