| 单词 | mess |
| 释义 | mess (once / 345 pages) 1nv 2nv 3n 4n A mess is a generally dirty state, like your bedroom, your hair, or anything else that's untidy. If you make a huge mess when you cook, you probably try to get someone else to do the clean-up. In addition to describing a jumble of stuff, mess can describe a confused or difficult situation, like the mess your finances are in if you have seven credit cards. When you mess something up, you cause disorder and maybe even wreck something, like a friendship you messed up by gossiping. And you might eat in a mess hall, a cafeteria for members of the armed forces — and it's probably very neat and orderly, not messy. WORD FAMILYmess: messed, messes, messing, messy+/messy: messier, messiest, messily, messiness USAGE EXAMPLES“The court stuck with the basic framework of Virginia, so it’s still pretty messed up, especially in Northern Virginia,” Cannon said. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) “The streets were just a mess, and traffic was horrendous — it was like L.A.” Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) Seconds later, he re-emerged, holding on to a chaotic mess of flapping flippers. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n a state of confusion and disorderliness the house was a mess Syn|Hyper messiness, muss, mussiness disorder, disorderliness a condition in which things are not in their expected places 2n informal terms for a difficult situation Syn|Hypo|Hyper fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, muddle, pickle dog's breakfast, dog's dinner a poor job; a mess difficulty a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome 3v make a mess of or create disorder in 2He messed up his room Syn|Hyper mess up disarray, disorder bring disorder to 1n a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax Syn|Hypo|Hyper mess hall officer's mess a mess for the exclusive use of officers dining room, dining-room a room used for dining 2n a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel Hyper meal, repast the food served and eaten at one time 3v eat in a mess hall 3Hyper eat eat a meal; take a meal n (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent 4Syn|Hypo|Hyper batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad deluge, flood, inundation, torrent an overwhelming number or amount haymowa mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude n soft semiliquid food a mess of porridge Hyper aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals a source of materials to nourish the body |
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