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词汇 muck-up
释义

muck something up


phrasal verb with muckverbuk /mʌk/ us /mʌk/
informal
to spoil something completely, or do something very badly: 打乱;把…弄糟
I really prepared for the interview because I didn't want to muck it up.我确实为面试做了准备,因为我不想把它搞砸了。
I mucked up the whole test!我考试砸锅了!
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Damaging and spoiling
adulterant
adulterate
adulterated
adulteration
applecart
butcher
drive a wedge between someoneidiom
dry rot
eat
eat away at something
erode
foul
queer
rain on someone's paradeidiom
rampage
ravage
ravages
seismic
sour
wreck
muck-up
noun[ C ]
UKinformaluk /ˈmʌk.ʌp/ us /ˈmʌk.ʌp/
a mistake that completely spoils something: 把事情弄糟
They made a muck-up of our order - it won't be ready till next week now.他们弄乱了我们的订单——现在得等到下周才能准备好。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Damaging and spoiling
adulterant
adulterate
adulterated
adulteration
applecart
butcher
drive a wedge between someoneidiom
dry rot
eat
eat away at something
erode
foul
queer
rain on someone's paradeidiom
rampage
ravage
ravages
seismic
sour
wreck

Examples of muck something up


muck something up
If this muck-up had been made by one of the public corporations we should have seen it in the newspapers for months.
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However, the fact is that they have made a muck-up of it and, as a consequence, it needs to be withdrawn.
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Hansard archive

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What a "muck-up" our defences were in.
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Hansard archive

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In 2003, three police cars were dispatched to the school when muck-up day activities went wrong after carloads of youths wielding baseball bats and wearing balaclavas arrived at the school.
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Indeed, one of the main architects of the bureaucratic muck-ups is to wind up the debate tonight.
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