mess about

英 [mes əˈbaʊt]

美 [mes əˈbaʊt]

v.  胡闹；弄乱

英英释义

verb

• be about
  1. The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square
  2. Who is this man that is hanging around the department?
  Synonym:loiterloungefootlelollygagloaflallygaghang aroundtarrylingerlurkmill aboutmill around

双语例句

• Don't mess about with sharp knives.
  不要摆弄锋利的刀子。
• The broken plastic tiles in crew's cabins, mess room and alleyway to be renewed about 30 sq.m in total.
  船员餐厅、住房及走廊损坏的塑料地板方块总计30㎡换新。
• Give him an old clock to pull to pieces, and he'll mess about with it for hours.
  给面旧钟让他拆去，他会摆弄好几个小时。
• Your efforts to clear up a mess have created more mess, but from that mess, order is about to emerge.
  你清理混乱的努力已经制造了更多的混乱，但是秩序即将从这团混乱中浮现。
• Don't mess me about, I want the money you promised me.
  别欺负我，我要你答应给我的钱。
• With U.S.housing still in a mess, the central bank will be far more worried about the impact of rising Treasury yields on the mortgage market.
  由于美国房地产仍处于混乱之中，央行将更加担心国债收益率上升给抵押贷款市场带来的影响。
• This room is a mess. It's about time you tidied up a bit.
  这个房间乱糟糟的，你该收拾一下了。
• It may seem merely technical, but the mess says much about the problems of being a global financial centre, where foreign teams come to play and the home referee deals with the damage.
  这看起来似乎纯粹是技术活，但这狼藉的局面暴露出这家全球金融中心的许多问题，就好像国外的球队来乱踢了一通，结果把烂摊子留给本国的裁判去处理。
• Don't mess me about. I'm doing you a favor.
  少来这套，我在帮你！
• If you mess things up, don't whine about the mistakes, learn from them.
  如果你陷入困境，不要发牢骚抱怨错误，要从中吸取教训。