mess up

phrasal verbphr v informal

a) mess something ↔ upSPOIL to spoil or ruin something, especially something important or something that has been carefully planned 弄糟，毁掉〔尤指重要物品或精心策划的事情〕

It took me ages to get this right – I don’t want some idiot to mess it up.

我花了好长时间才把这东西弄好——我可不想让哪个白痴把它弄坏。

She felt she’d messed up her whole life.

她感到她把自己整个生活都弄得一团糟。

b) mess something ↔ upUNTIDY to make something dirty or untidy 弄脏；弄乱

Who messed up the kitchen?

谁把厨房弄得乱七八糟的？

c) to make a mistake and do something badly 出错；搞砸

I think I messed up on the last question.

我想最后一个问题我答错了。

mess something ↔ up

It doesn’t matter if you mess it up, you can always try again.

要是搞砸了也没关系，你总可以再来一次。

d) mess somebody ↔ up to make someone have emotional or mental problems 使某人心情恶劣；使某人精神出问题

I messed up my kids.

我把我的孩子们搞得焦头烂额。

e) mess somebody ↔ up American EnglishAmE informal to hurt someone especially by hitting them 伤害某人；殴打某人

Examples from the Corpus

mess up• Don't ask Terry to do it - she'll probably just mess it up.• I've practiced all week, but I'm still afraid I'll mess up.• We secretly organized a party for her, but then Bill messed everything up by telling her about it.• Who's messed up my nice clean kitchen?• The travel agents messed up the arrangements and there was no room for us at the hotel.• Don't mess up the living room - we have company coming tonight.• Danny messed up three plays and made us lose the game.

→ mess up at mess2(PHRASAL VERB)

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