mess
noun /mes/
/mes/
肮脏;杂乱;不整洁 - in a mess The room was in a mess.
房间杂乱不堪。 - The kids made a mess in the bathroom.
孩子们把浴室搞得一塌糊涂。 - ‘What a mess!’ she said, surveying the scene after the party.
看着聚会后的场面,她说:“真是一片狼藉!” - My hair's a real mess!
我的头发太乱了!
- Must you always leave such a mess?
你非要总搞得这么乱吗? - Sorry, this place is a bit of a mess.
对不起,这儿有点儿乱。 - Let's try to sort out the mess.
我们来收拾一下残局吧。 - Why don't you clean up this disgusting mess?
你干吗不把这些乱七八糟的东西清理一下? - They've left the most terrible mess in their bedrooms.
他们把最糟糕的东西留在了卧室里。 - She searched through the mess of papers on her desk.
她把自己桌上那堆杂乱的文件翻了个遍。 - Soon both fighters were a bloody mess of flying punches.
很快两个斗士就乱拳挥舞打成了一团,只见到处是血。 - There was a soggy mess of porridge on the table.
桌上有一团湿乎乎的麦片粥。 - There was a tangled mess of wires under her desk.
她的桌子下面有一堆乱七八糟的电线。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- absolute
- complete
- fine
- …
- leave
- make
- clean up
- …
- in a mess
- mess of
- make a mess of things
- in a mess The room was in a mess.
- [countable, usually singular] a situation that is full of problems, usually because of a lack of organization or because of mistakes that somebody has made
(组织欠佳或人为导致的)麻烦,困境,混乱 - in a mess The economy is in a mess.
经济陷入了困境。 - a financial mess
金融混乱 - I feel I've made a mess of things.
我觉得我把事情搞糟了。 - How did this whole mess start?
这一切是怎么开始的? - Let's try to sort out the mess.
我们来收拾一下残局吧。 - How do we get out of this mess?
我们如何摆脱这种困境? - The biggest question is how they got into this mess in the first place.
关键问题是他们是怎么惹出这样的麻烦的。 - (ironic) That’s another fine mess you’ve got us into.
你又把我们弄成了一团乱麻。 - The entire event is a sorry mess.
整个事件一团糟。
- A new managing director has been appointed to clear up the financial mess.
新任命了一位常务董事来收拾财务的残局。 - I got myself into a complete mess.
我惹上了天大的麻烦。 - I have to try to fix the mess you caused.
我不得不努力收拾你弄的这个烂摊子。 - I'm in a huge mess. I don't know what to do.
我身陷巨大的混乱之中,不知如何是好。 - My life's becoming a big mess.
我的生活正变为一团乱麻。 - The whole situation is a giant mess.
整个情形混乱一片。 - The whole situation is a mess.
整个情况都是一团糟。 - The plot is an incoherent mess.
那情节是一团毫无条理的乱麻。 - We found ourselves in a real mess.
我们发现自己深陷麻烦之中。 - Who got us into this mess in the first place?
首先,究竟是谁让我们惹上这样的麻烦? - You started this entire mess!
是你起头把这弄得一团糟! - There is still a way out of this economic mess.
摆脱经济困境还有一条路。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- absolute
- complete
- fine
- …
- leave
- make
- clean up
- …
- in a mess
- mess of
- make a mess of things
- in a mess The economy is in a mess.
- [singular] a person who is dirty or whose clothes and hair are not tidy
不整洁(或邋遢、不修边幅)的人 - You're a mess!
你真邋遢!
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- absolute
- complete
- fine
- …
- leave
- make
- clean up
- …
- in a mess
- mess of
- make a mess of things
- You're a mess!
- [singular] (informal) a person who has serious problems and is in a bad mental condition
有严重问题且精神失常的人 - When my wife left me I was a total mess.
当我妻子离开我时,我一塌糊涂。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- absolute
- complete
- fine
- …
- leave
- make
- clean up
- …
- in a mess
- mess of
- make a mess of things
- When my wife left me I was a total mess.
- [uncountable, countable] (informal) the excrement (= solid waste matter) of an animal, usually a dog or cat
(狗、猫等的)粪便 - [singular] a mess of something (North American English, informal) a lot of something
许多;大量 - There's a mess of fish down there, so get your lines in the water.
那底下有很多鱼,快下钩吧。
- There's a mess of fish down there, so get your lines in the water.
- [countable] (also mess hall especially in North American English)a building or room in which members of the armed forces have their meals
(军队的)食堂,餐厅 - the officers’ mess
军官食堂
- the officers’ mess
untidy state不整洁
difficult situation困境
person人
animal waste动物粪便
a lot许多
armed forces武装力量
词源Middle English: from Old French mes ‘portion of food’, from late Latin missum ‘something put on the table’, past participle of mittere ‘send, put’. The original sense was ‘a serving of (semi-liquid) food’, later ‘liquid food for an animal’; this gave rise (early 19th cent.) to the senses ‘unappetizing concoction’ and ‘predicament’, on which senses 1, 3 and 4 are based. In late Middle English the term also denoted any of the small groups into which the company at a banquet was divided (who were served from the same dishes); hence, ‘a group who regularly eat together’ (recorded in military use from the mid 16th cent.).