mess

B1 CET-4 Oxf 3000 高中 FREQ #952 ★★★☆☆

n. 食堂, 伙食, 用膳, 一份食品, 混乱, 乱七八糟, 困境 vt. 将...弄糟, 妨碍, 使紊乱, 使就餐 vi. 陷入困境, 搞乱, 用膳

发音

US /mɛs/

词形变化

messes 复数 messes 三单 messing 现在分词 messed 过去式 messed 过去分词

释义与例句

n. B1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation

    混乱

    杂乱

    可数 不可数

    No, look, I know that the place looks like a bit of a mess but it's actually a very delicate ecosystem. Everything is connected. It's like the rainforest. You change one thing, even the tiniest bit, and the whooole rainforest dies. You don't want the rainforest to die, do ya?

    He made a mess of it.

    My bedroom is such a mess; I need to tidy up.

  2. 2.

    a large quantity or number

    非正式 可数 不可数

    My boss dumped a whole mess of projects on my desk today.

    (Northern England, Appalachia) a sufficient quantity of food for a meal

    She brought back a mess of fish to fix for supper.

  3. 3.

    excrement.

    可数 委婉 不可数

    There was dog mess all along the street.

    Did you hear that? It scared the mess out of me.

  4. 4.

    a person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck

    可数 比喻 不可数

    Between the pain and the depression, I'm a mess.

    He's been a mess and a half ever since you excommunicated him.

  5. 1.

    Mass; a church service.

    废旧
  6. 2.

    A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.

    古体
  7. 3.

    A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.

    the wardroom mess

  8. 4.

    A building or room in which mess is eaten.

  9. 5.

    a type of restaurant characterized by homely-style cooking and food.

    印度
  10. 6.

    A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).

  11. 7.

    The milk given by a cow at one milking.

    美国
  12. 8.

    A group of iguanas.

  13. 9.

    A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.

    烹饪
v. B1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    To make untidy or dirty.

    To make soiled by defecating.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To make untidy or dirty.

    To make soiled by ejaculating.

    及物
  3. 3.

    To throw into disorder or to ruin.

    及物
  4. 4.

    To interfere.

    不及物

    This doesn't concern you. Don't mess.

  5. 1.

    To take meals with a mess.

    不及物
  6. 2.

    To belong to a mess.

    不及物
  7. 3.

    To eat (with others).

    不及物

    Resolved 18. That no Guide or Interpreter whether at the Factory Depot or Inland be permitted to mess with Commissioned Gentlemen or Clerks in charge of Posts; but while at the Depot they will be allowed per Week 4 days ordinary rations...

    I mess with the wardroom officers.

  8. 4.

    To supply with a mess.

    及物

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词源

Perhaps a corruption of Middle English mesh (“mash”), compare muss, or derived from Etymology 2 "mixed foods, as for animals". Compare also Old English mes (“dung, excrement”).

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