mess up

1.mess (sth ) up?

to spoil or ruin something, especially something important or something that has been carefully planned?弄糟，毀掉〔尤指重要物品或精心策劃的事情〕

It took me ages to get this right – I don’t want some idiot to mess it up.

我花了好長時間才把這東西弄好——我可不想讓哪個白癡把它弄壞。

She felt she’d messed up her whole life.

她感到她把自己整個生活都弄得一團(tuán)糟。

2. to make a mistake and do something badly 出錯；搞砸

I think I messed up on the last question.

我想最后一個問題我答錯了。

mess (sth) up

It doesn’t matter if you mess it up, you can always try again.

要是搞砸了也沒關(guān)系，你總可以再來一次。

3. mess up?

to make someone have emotional or mental problems?使某人心情惡劣；使某人精神出問題

I messed up my kids.

我把我的孩子們搞得焦頭爛額。

be chained to sth?

to have your freedom restricted because of something you must do?受到某事的束縛

She felt chained to the kitchen sink.

她覺得就像被拴在灶臺上一樣。

I don’t want a job where I’m chained to a desk all day.

我不想要一份整天被拴在辦公桌前的工作。

run errands 聽候差遣，跑腿

cou·ture

the design and production of expensive and fashionable clothes, or the clothes themselves 昂貴時裝的設(shè)計制作；昂貴時裝

a couture collection

一批高級時裝

devine

1.coming from or relating to God or a god?神的，上帝的；天賜的

divine intervention / providence / revelation / guidance etc

faith in divine providence

對神意的信賴

divine power

神的力量

divine love

上帝的慈愛

2.old-fashioned【過時】?very pleasant or good?極好的，極妙的

DERIVATIVE?派生詞

divinely? adv

a divinely inspired idea

如得神靈啟示的想法