mess-up

柯林斯詞典

1. PHRASAL VERB If you mess something up or if you mess up, you cause something to fail or be spoiled. 把…搞糟; 把…弄亂[非正式]
When politicians mess things up, it is the people who pay the price. 政客們把事情搞砸時，承受損失的是老百姓。
He had messed up one career. 他已經(jīng)把一份工作搞砸了。
2. PHRASAL VERB If you mess up a place or a thing, you make it dirty or not neat. 弄髒; 弄亂[非正式]
I hope they haven't messed up your video tapes. 我希望他們沒有弄亂你的錄像帶。