"If Congress and the administration mess this up each and every one of us will pay for the mistakes, as will generations to come.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

This was best summarized most famously by the British poet Philip Larkin who wrote, They mess you up, your mum and dad.

这一点被一位英国诗人菲利普·拉金,很好地总结了,他写道,他们害了你,你爸和你妈

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Or if someone makes a mess in a, in a common area, they are expected to clean up that mess.

如果有人把公用区域弄脏了，那他就要负责打扫干净。

有趣的室友们 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

We're all out here trying to work hard and trying to clean up this mess."

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

So, sometimes you'll find the Rydberg constant in different forms, but just make sure you pay attention to units because then you won't mess them up, because this is in inverse seconds here, the other Rydberg constant is in joules, so you'll be able to use what you need depending on how you're using that constant.

有时候你们会发现Rydberg常数,会写成不同的形式，但你们要注意,它的单位就不会弄错了，因为这里是秒的倒数，而另一个Rydberg常数是焦耳，所有你可以根据你要怎么使用,这个常数来选择你需要的常数。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"We are cleaning up something that is - quite simply - a mess,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

"In addition to cleaning up the mess, repairing the damage and cracking down on big oil companies, we also have to get serious about ending our dependence on oil and creating new sources of clean energy."

VOA: standard.2010.07.31