词汇 | hot-mess |
释义 | hot mess noun[ C ] mainly USinformaluk /ˈhɒt ˌmes/ us /ˈhɑːt ˌmes/ someone or something with a very untidy appearance, or that is not well-organized: (某人或某物)一团糟 Una is such a hot mess she probably doesn't know what she's doing there herself.尤娜根本就是一团糟,她自己可能都不知道自己在干什么。 Maxine's is a crazy, disorganized hot mess of a place but the food is amazing.玛克辛餐厅是一个疯狂、杂乱、乱糟糟的地方,但是食物却很棒。 Dirt & untidiness bloodstain clutter contaminant contamination crud fleck grime grunge gunge gunk muck pollutant polluter scrappiness scruff shambles slime slob slovenliness smear Examples of hot messhot mess It's a hotmess, and likely the precursor to a postseason purge that seems more inevitable by the day. From The Seattle Times Dare to stop reading and start writing, and revel in an early draft that is an unabashed hotmess. From Slate Magazine The military spouse blogs are compelling reading because they're a hotmess, which is precisely their charm. From Slate There are very few writers who are able to avoid the "hotmess" part of it and many who languish in this. From Huffington Post And now it's under the sun swelling into a hotmess of bacteria. From WIRED It's still a hotmess. From OregonLive.com But that hotmess she inherited? From OregonLive.com It's unclear which of the older meanings of hot and mess someone was drawing on when first using hotmess to sum up a dysfunctional but perhaps still appealing person. From TIME These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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