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You really need to spend some time thinking about what you are doing and, if you mess something up, you can be in big trouble.(您确实需要花一些时间来考虑您正在做什么，如果您把某些事情搞糟了，就可能会惹来大麻烦。)

Come on, you guys, -start doing some work, don't just mess about all day!(来吧，伙计们做点正经事吧，不要整天胡混！)

If you're gaining weight and discovering a mess in the kitchen every morning, talk to your doctor about whether or not you might have SRED.(如果你的体重在增加，而且每天早上都发现厨房一片狼藉，就去和医生谈谈，看你是否得了与睡眠相关的饮食失调症。)

Our founders knew about this, they advised us and we have ignored it and we're in a mess.(我们的国父们深知这点，他们建议了我们，却被我们所忽视了，并且现在我们的处境一团糟。)

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.(规则6：你的一败涂地与父母无尤，不要喋喋不休的抱怨个不停，应该汲取教训，从中获益。)

Jack warned him not to mess about with married women.(杰克警告他不要和已婚妇女乱搞。)

Before I get to that, a word about the current state of the mortgage mess.(在论述这个问题之前，先说说抵押贷款混乱的现状。)

In late October 1947, oppressed with "wretched health", Orwell recognised that his novel was still "a most dreadful mess and about two-thirds of it will have to be retyped entirely".(1947年十月下旬，烦于“糟透的病况”，奥威尔承认他的小说依然陷于“最艰难的困境以及还有三分之二的内容需要完全重新打过”。)

My gut feeling is terrible, I’m always getting in a mess by listening to myself, what can I do about it?(有这么种说法，“我本能的感觉是可怕的。我总是因为自己的直觉而使自己陷入窘境，我该怎么办？”)

Even if Lamentations about the British economy are overdone, there is no miraculous way out of the mess.(即使对英国经济的哀悼有些过火，也确实没有奇迹的方法令其走出泥沼。)