词汇 | muck-up |
释义 | muck something upphrasal 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! 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。 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 upmuck 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. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, the fact is that they have made a muck-up of it and, as a consequence, it needs to be withdrawn. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What a "muck-up" our defences were in. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Indeed, one of the main architects of the bureaucratic muck-ups is to wind up the debate tonight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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