记忆方法
所以联想为:没收拾,那肯定【很乱】
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。该词是在13到14世纪时借自古法语mes,而mes又源于拉丁语missus,它们的原义分别为dish of food(一份食物)和course at a meal(一道菜)。圣经中有一句话Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage(以扫为一碗红豆汤出卖长子继承权),其中mess就作“一份食物”一义解。15世纪时mess的词义逐渐引申为“集体用膳人员”、“伙食团”以及“食堂”等,这一单词用法在海陆军里一度十分普遍,到了L9世纪又进而引申为“大杂烩”、“杂乱”、“凌乱状态”、“乱七八糟(的东西)”,这大概是从部队在野地里用餐后出现的凌乱状态或酒席后杯盘狼藉和残羹剩饭混合一起的情景所引起的联想。食物词语的词义往往是这样演变的,如gallimaufry(残肴的杂烩,大杂烩),hodgepodge(蔬菜和肉的杂烩,大杂烩);baloney(肉的杂烩,大红肠).farrago(饲料的杂烩,大杂烩)等。
双解例句
小知识
A mess is a generally dirty state, like your bedroom, your hair, or anything else that's untidy. If you make a huge mess when you cook, you probably try to get someone else to do the clean-up.
In addition to describing a jumble of stuff, mess can describe a confused or difficult situation, like the mess your finances are in if you have seven credit cards. When you mess something up, you cause disorder and maybe even wreck something, like a friendship you messed up by gossiping. And you might eat in a mess hall, a cafeteria for members of the armed forces — and it's probably very neat and orderly, not messy.
实用短语
常用短语
单词用法
a mess of一大堆…;把…弄糟
in a mess乱糟糟,一团糟
mess with同…一起用膳;胡乱摆弄;干扰;与…厮混在一起
同义词辨析
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。
同义词
dirty / contaminate / corrupt / disfigure / pollute
scrape / pollute / anarchy / predicament / disorder / jungle / fright / plenty / hodgepodge / muddle / muss / shambles / contaminate / nourishment / tangle / disfigure / corrupt / hash / dirty