made a mess of

基本解釋

Last summer the company hired to mark the SATs made a mess of the job and was sacked.
去年夏季，被雇傭去給標(biāo)準(zhǔn)評(píng)估測(cè)試評(píng)分的公司搞砸了那項(xiàng)工作，弄得非常糟糕。
The army, which made a mess of governing the country after the 2006 coup, says it will stay in its barracks.
而在2006發(fā)動(dòng)政變，把國(guó)家的治理搞得一團(tuán)糟的軍隊(duì)勢(shì)力也表示，他們會(huì)老實(shí)待在軍營(yíng)里面。
A year later, he said, nobody had been made accountable for the incident, in which police appeared to have made a mess of an attempt to rescue tourists held hostage on a coach.
這位馬尼拉總教區(qū)輔理主教指出，事件中警方營(yíng)救旅游巴士人質(zhì)的過程混亂無(wú)章，一年過去了，但仍沒有人需要負(fù)上責(zé)任。他慨嘆：「為甚么？
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