看美剧学英语高频短语：Mess sth up

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Mess sth up: to spoil something or do it badly; to make something dirty or not neat; mess sb up (informal) to cause someone to have serious emotional or mental problems; (informal) to physically hurt someone, especially by hitting them. As in I don't want you messing up my nice clean kitchen.

中文释义： mess up 的意思是 to spoil something or do it badly. 形容毫无秩序及条理，乱糟糟的样子，也就是“把...弄糟，弄乱”的意思。拓展到Don't mess it up 这个口语表达的意思就是：“别把它弄乱，别把它搞砸”的意思。例句：I've really messed up this time.（这次我真的把事情给弄糟了。）也可以指“to make sth dirty or untidy 使不整洁；弄脏；弄乱”，例句：I don't want you messing up my nice clean kitchen.（我不想让你弄脏我这整洁的厨房。）而将sth换成人称代词之后，如mess sb up，还可以指使心情恶劣；使精神崩溃”。