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?

今天上學怎么樣？

B: I hate school.

我討厭學校。

A: Why? What happened?

為什么？發生了什么？

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?

那你為了復習熬通宵了嗎？

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?

我敢肯定如果你學習了，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，我幫你復習。