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，被雇佣去给标准评估测试评分的公司搞砸了那项工作，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发动政变，把国家的治理搞得一团糟的军队势力也表示，他们会老实待在军营里面。
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.
这位马尼拉总教区辅理主教指出，事件中警方营救旅游巴士人质的过程混乱无章，一年过去了，但仍没有人需要负上责任。他慨叹：「为甚么？
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