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

• Jane Goodall: "The most important thing we can do to try to get out of the mess we've made on this planet is to spend time thinking about the consequences of the choices we make."
  简。顾达尔：“如何才能将我们制造的混乱从这个星球上清除掉？最重要的还是花点时间想想，我们的一切抉择会引起什么后果。”
• 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。
• "If you mess about with my computer again, you'll be for the high jump."
  “如果你再来乱动我的计算机，我就要治治你。”
• That's because, generally, we'd never work on something that we didn't think was safe to release-which is why we've never bothered to mess about with ISO loading.
  那是因为，一般，我们从未会从事某事我们没有认为是安全发布-是为什么我们从未麻烦弄乱ISO装货。
• But it is already clear that this mess is about more than a bit of rash mortgage lending to Americans who were in the habit of falling behind with their monthly payments.
  之前有人认为，上周的混乱是一小部分不负责任的抵押贷款造成的，这些借贷人总是不按时交纳当月付款数，已经习以为常。现在人们已经明白，问题不是这么简单。
• And don't give me that mess about the phones.
  别告诉我是电话出的什么鬼问题。
• 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。
• Don't mess me about. I'm doing you a favor.
  少来这套，我在帮你！
• 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。
• 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。