1. mess about : 浪费时间, 荡来荡去, 闲逛, 混日子, 行动笨拙, 说话罗嗦；
2. make a mess of : 搞糟；
3. lose the number of one's mess : 死；
4. go to mess : 去食堂吃饭；
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1. 脏乱;凌乱;不整洁
If you say that something is a mess or in a mess, you think that it is in an untidy state.
2. 困境;麻烦;混乱
If you say that a situation is a mess, you mean that it is full of trouble or problems. You can also say that something is in a mess .
3. (意外滴落的)液体(或黏稠物)
A mess is something liquid or sticky that has been accidentally dropped on something.
4. (军队的)餐厅，食堂
The mess at a military base or military barracks is the building in which members of the armed forces can eat or relax.
1. a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
Synonym: mess hall
2. a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
3. soft semiliquid food
e.g. a mess of porridge
4. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
e.g. a batch of letters
a deal of trouble
a lot of money
he made a mint on the stock market
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
it must have cost plenty
a slew of journalists
a wad of money
Synonym: batchdealflockgood dealgreat dealhatfulheaplotmassmicklemintmountainmucklepasselpeckpileplentypotquite a littleraftsightslewspatestacktidy sumwad
5. informal terms for a difficult situation
e.g. he got into a terrible fix
he made a muddle of his marriage
Synonym: fixholejammuddlepicklekettle of fish
6. a state of confusion and disorderliness
e.g. the house was a mess
she smoothed the mussiness of the bed