mess是什么意思_mess怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

(often followed by `of") a large number or amount or extent;"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"

Verb:

eat in a mess hall

make a mess of or create disorder in;"He messed up his room"

中英词源

mess 军队的食堂，餐厅，肮脏，杂乱

来自古法语mes,一份食物，就餐，来自拉丁语mittere,放置，送出，词源同mission,emit.引申词义吃饭的地方，尤指部队餐厅。后用于指倒剩饭剩菜的地方，猪食等，并最终引申词义肮脏，杂乱等词义。

mess: mess: [13] Mess comes via Old French mes from late Latin missus, a derivative of the verb mittere ‘send’ (source of English admit, mission, transmit, etc). This meant ‘sending, placement’, and its original metaphorical application was to a ‘round or heat of a contest’, but it was also used for a ‘course of a meal’, and this was the sense in which it originally entered English.

Traces of the food connection survive in the mess of pottage (literally a ‘dish of porridge or gruel’ made from lentils) for which Esau sold his birthright to Jacob, and in the sense ‘communal eating place’ (as in ‘sergeants’ mess’), which developed in the 16th century. But the main present-day meaning, ‘disorderly thing or condition’, did not emerge until as recently as the 19th century, apparently based on the notion of a mess as a ‘dish of assorted foodstuffs dumped unceremoniously and without thought on to a plate’.
=> admit, commit, mission, permit, transmit
mess (n.): c. 1300, "food for one meal, pottage," from Old French mes "portion of food, course at dinner," from Late Latin missus "course at dinner," literally "a placing, a putting (on a table, etc.)," from past participle of mittere "to put, place," in classical Latin "to send, let go" (see mission).

Meaning "communal eating place" (especially a military one) is first attested 1530s, from earlier sense of "company of persons eating together" (early 15c.), originally a group of four. Sense of "mixed food," especially for animals, (1738) led to contemptuous use for "jumble, mixed mass" (1828) and figurative sense of "state of confusion" (1834), as well as "condition of untidiness" (1851). General use for "a quantity" of anything is attested by 1830. Meaning "excrement" (of animals) is from 1903.
mess (v.): late 14c., "serve up in portions," from mess (n.). Meaning "take one"s meals" is from 1701; that of "make a mess" is from 1853. Related: Messed; messing. To mess with "interfere, get involved" is from 1903; mess up "make a mistake, get in trouble" is from 1933 (earlier "make a mess of," 1909), both originally American English colloquial.

词态变化

复数 messes;
第三人称单数 messes;
过去式 messed;
过去分词 messed;
现在分词 messing;

权威造句

1. England"s European Championship plans are in a right mess.: 英格兰队的欧洲锦标赛作战计划乱七八糟。

2. A waiter mopped up the mess as best he could.: 一名侍者尽力抹掉溅出的食物。

3. Except for the remarkably tidy kitchen, the place was a mess.: 除了厨房特别干净外，这地方一片狼藉。

4. The wrong shampoo can leave curly hair in a tangled mess.: 不合适的洗发水会使卷发纠结成乱糟糟的一团。

5. I have to get to the bottom of this mess.: 我必须查清造成这一混乱局面的真正原因。

近反义词

confuse

dirty

muddle

confusion

disorder

muddle

相似短语

be at mess 在食堂吃饭

mess in 1. 干涉

at mess 在食堂吃饭

mess with 胡乱摆弄,糟蹋,与…厮混;和…一道用膳

to mess about with 做手脚

go to mess 去食堂吃饭

mess together 集体用餐

mess up phr.v.1. （mess something up）搞糟，陷入困境，粗暴地处理；打乱；把……弄脏、弄乱2. （mess somebody up）使……心情恶劣，使身体受伤；殴打

mess jacket n. 晚礼服

mess man (海军)炊事兵

单词分析

这些名词均表示事物的混乱状态。
confusion指东西搅混在一起，凌乱得难以辨认；也可指思想混乱，以致无法进行正常的思维活动。
disorder正式用词，含义广泛。指事物因失去原有的秩序而造成混乱；也可指社会中的动乱或骚乱。
disturbance主要指社会中政治性的动乱、骚乱；也可指个人或少数人的闹事。
mess语气强，口语中较常用的非正式用词。指既混乱又肮脏，尤指人思想混乱或外表不整洁。
chaos着重指令人无能为力或感到绝望的混乱状态。突出没有很好的组织。

记忆方法

mess.........麻似.....跟乱麻死的......杂乱

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