mess up
把...搞砸;弄亂;弄臟
I hope they haven't messed up your video tapes.
我希望他們沒有弄亂你的錄像帶。
I'm so sorry. I messed up the whole thing.
很抱歉,我把整件事情搞砸了。
A: How was school today?
今天上學(xué)怎么樣?
B: I hate school.
我討厭學(xué)校。
A: Why? What happened?
為什么?發(fā)生了什么?
B: I messed up my mid-term exam so badly today.
今天我的期中考試考砸了。
A: It's just one exam. Can you re-take the exam?
那不過是一次期中考試。你能補考嗎?
B: Yes, but it 's so humiliating. I don't want my friends to know I failed.
可以。可是實在太丟人了。我不想讓我的同學(xué)們知道我考試不及格。
A: Why didn't you do a good job?
你為什么沒有考好?
B: I don't know, I sat down in my seat, looked at my paper, and then my mind just went totally black.
我不清楚。我坐在座位上,盯著卷子看,大腦一片空白。
A: Do you think you studied enough for the exam?
你覺得你考試準備的充分嗎?
B: No.
不充分。
A: What did you do last night?
你昨晚做了什么?
B: I watched TV.
我看了電視。
A: Did you study the whole night for your exam?
那你為了復(fù)習(xí)熬通宵了嗎?
B: No, not really.
沒有,沒那么做。
A: I'm sure if you had studied, you would have done well. When can you re-take your exam?
我敢肯定如果你學(xué)習(xí)了,你本可以考的很好。什么時候補考?
B: Tomorrow.
明天。
A: All right. Get out your books and I'll help you prepare.
好的。拿出你的書,我?guī)湍銖?fù)習(xí)。