mess-up

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

Enough time and money to allow for a mess-up or two.
（還得有一個非常懂事的妻子）足夠的錢和時間，可以隨便用。
Enough swelling will break down the follicle walls, and the plugged-up mess will unload into the skin.
腫脹到一定程度就將破壞毛囊壁，那些被阻擋在里面的東西就會轉(zhuǎn)移到皮膚上。
The budget surplus he inherited is now a deficit, the fiscal hole in America’s retiree programmes is bigger than ever, the tax system is an unstable, patched-up mess.
他接手時的預(yù)算盈余如今已是赤字，退休計劃造成了美國有史以來最大的財政虧空，而稅收體系處于極不穩(wěn)定、漏洞百出的混亂狀態(tài)。

"We are cleaning up something that is - quite simply - a mess,"
"At this stage my priority is to have teams of people out there cleaning this mess up to protect wildlife in what may well be the worst environmental disaster that Queensland or the south-east of our State has faced."

But, as Feuerstein details, this sounds like a lot more than the usual bio-mess-up.
FORBES: Biotech's Revolving Door
He infamously once chastised his driver for a transport mess-up that was out of the man's control.
FORBES: Magazine Article

If you mess something up or if you mess up, you cause something to fail or be spoiled.
If you mess up a place or a thing, you make it dirty or not neat.