英语词汇“mess”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	mess
释义	mess I. \ˈmes\ noun (-es) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English mes, from Old French, from Late Latin missus course at a meal, from missus, past participle of mittere to put, place, from Latin, to send 1. : a quantity of food: a. archaic : food set on a table at one time : course b. : a prepared dish (as of soft or pulpy food) < a mess of milk, made by crumbling bread into it — G.E.Fussell > : a mixture of ingredients cooked or eaten together < a curious savory mess of sweetbreads and chicken liver — Margery Allingham > < took a lot of cheese, a lot of hardtack, and a lot of bully beef, ground them up together, and then baked the mess — New York Times > c. : sufficient quantity (of a specified kind of food) for a dish or a meal < picking a little mess of red raspberries for her breakfast — Jean Stafford > < a mess of string beans any time you wanted it — G.S.Perry > : catch < a mess of trout > d. dialect : the milk given by a cow at one milking 2. : a quantity of any soft, moist, smeary, or pulpy substance often of an unpleasant nature < cannot bear to be reminded that under the skin there is blood, mess, and entrails — F.R.Leavis > 3. a. [Middle English messe, from mes course] : one of the small groups (as of four) into which companies at banquets were formerly divided for being served — now used only of parties of benchers or students in the Inns of Court b. : a group of persons (as of military personnel) who regularly take their meals together < every officer serving with a unit … is obliged to belong to a mess — S.G.Maurice > c. : a meal so taken d. (1) : a place (as a room or tent) where food or sometimes drink is served < fresh fruit was a rarity in marine messes — H.L.Merillat > < were at the wine mess — Frederic Wakeman > < the field mess is open — John Masters > (2) : quarters comprising both kitchen and dining areas < mess building > < mess steward > < mess officer > 4. dialect : amount, number < a little mess of eggs — Elizabeth M. Roberts > < substitute father to a mess of newly orphaned children — Newsweek > : a large quantity < a mess of preaching ain't going to alter her over — Sarah O. Jewett > < a big mess of people > 5. a. : a confused, untidy, dirty, unpleasant, or offensive state or condition : hodgepodge, jumble, muss < clear away the mess left by the guests — Sherwood Anderson > < the apartment was a mess — floors unswept — John & Ward Hawkins > < the falling tide had left us well caught in a great mess of shoals — D.B.Putnam > b. : a disordered or unsavory situation, state, or condition resulting from misunderstanding, blundering, or misconduct < the mess he is making of his life — Carl Binger > < viewed realistically, the past is merely a series of messes — E.M.Forster > — often used with in or into < get himself in a mess > II. verb (-ed/-ing/-es) Etymology: Middle English messen, from mes, n. *transitive verb* 1. now dialect Britain : to portion out (food) : deal out (as a meal) : serve 2. : to assign to a mess < personnel will be messed in the building — Crowsnest > < quarter and mess them together at some distance from their places of normal duty — Infantry Journal > 3. a. : to make dirty or untidy : disarrange < his clothes are all messed > — often used with up < without getting messed up in the mud of the highroad — Richard Joseph > b. : to mix up : botch, bungle, muddle < unless his chance came in extraordinarily lucky guise, he would probably mess it — Scribner's > < the schedule of appointments, carelessly messed for the day — Helen Howe > — often used with up < a variety of state standards messes up national contracts — New York Times > < when something happens that messes up the girl's life — Evelyn M. Duvall > c. : damage, spoil — usually used with up < a frost which would have messed up the outdoor peaches — Nigel Balchin > d. : to interfere with — used with up < magnetic storms that mess up communications — Time > e. : to handle roughly : rough up : manhandle — used with up *intransitive verb* 1. : to prepare food for and serve messes 2. : to take meals with a mess : belong to a mess < had marched and messed together through the war — Dixon Wecter > < granted the privilege of messing away from the naval activity — Naval Reservist > < will mess only twice a day aboard ship — Alan Surgal > < mess together by tribes — C.S.Coon > 3. : to make a mess : dabble < stop messing and eat your breakfast > 4. a. : putter, tinker, trifle, play < messes with motors in his spare time > < child messing with his fork and spoon > b. : to become involved especially voluntarily : interfere, meddle — usually used with in or with < messing in other people's affairs > c. : to act toward someone in a rough or annoying manner : tease — usually used with with < if he ever messes with me any more — James Jones > d. : to become mixed up or confused : blunder — usually used with up < her own life messes up — H.C.Webster > III. dialect Britain variant of mass I
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