made a mess of

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Last summer the company hired to mark the SATs made a mess of the job and was sacked.
去年夏季，被雇傭去給標準評估測試評分的公司搞砸了那項工作，弄得非常糟糕。
The army, which made a mess of governing the country after the 2006 coup, says it will stay in its barracks.
而在2006發動政變，把國家的治理搞得一團糟的軍隊勢力也表示，他們會老實待在軍營裡麪。
A year later, he said, nobody had been made accountable for the incident, in which police appeared to have made a mess of an attempt to rescue tourists held hostage on a coach.
這位馬尼拉縂教區輔理主教指出，事件中警方營救旅遊巴士人質的過程混亂無章，一年過去了，但仍沒有人需要負上責任。他慨歎：「爲甚麽？
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