mess是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 凌乱状态, 脏乱状态; 混乱的局面, 困境; v. 弄糟, 弄脏, 搞乱，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Better to be of a mess than in a mess!I remember making a joke something like that at the mess in eighteen hundred and forty forty I forget.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this the woman, as fair as a god-dess, mixed them a mess with Pramnian wine; she grated goat's milk cheese into it with a bronze grater, threw in a handful of white barley-meal, and having thus prepared the mess she bade them drink it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wouldn't like to mess up your plans, you know.
-- On the counterpane was a mess of blood, and the sheet had been torn.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He glanced about us, standing astride over the mess of dead rabbit, his eyes roving among the shadows and screens of greenery, the lurking-places and ambuscades of the forest that bounded us in.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For me now...everything's at an end!I've made a mess of my life.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Before telephoning he had been full of little brightnesses; he had praised Clif's pool-playing and called Barney "old Cimex lectularius"; but now, while the affectionate Clif worked on him, he sat brooding save when he grumbled (with a return of self-satisfaction), "If you knew all the troubles I have--all the doggone mess a fellow can get into--YOU'D feel down in the mouth!"
-- I hate to give up the right of being a happy sinner, but my way was so straight, with just Leora and my work, and I'm not going to mess it.
-- The world has always been ruled by the Philanthropists: by the doctors that want to use therapeutic methods they do not understand, by the soldiers that want something to defend their country against, by the preachers that yearn to make everybody listen to them, by the kind manufacturers that love their workers, by the eloquent statesmen and soft-hearted authors--and see once what a fine mess of hell they haf made of the world!Maybe now it is time for the scientist, who works and searches and never goes around howling how he loves everybody!
-- By the time he had finished the mess he was ready to believe that Leora had left him forever.
-- Terry was chopping wood, in a mess of chip-littered snow.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, you see, I thought I'd made a mess of it, but as I went downstairs a brilliant idea struck me: why should we trouble?
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Come," said he to himself, "somehow I have just made a mess of it, I do not know how.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'To have that mealy-mouthed little mess take up forme!"
-- Oh, what a mess life was!Why had she been such an idiot as to marry Charles of all people and have her life endat sixteen?
-- One doctah he say ter me, 'Damn yo' hide!Doan you come roun' hyah bodderin' me 'boutbabies w'en we got a mess of men dyin' hyah.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he who sold his birthright for a mess of pottage existed, and Judas Iscariot existed, and Castlereagh existed, and this man exists!'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How foul those low people were!How nice it was here, in the sunshine and the indolence, compared to that dismal mess of that English Midlands!After all, a clear sky was almost the most important thing in life.
-- I don't like to think too much about you, in my head, that only makes a mess of us both.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr Rugg's enjoyment of embarrassed affairs was like a housekeeper's enjoyment in pickling and preserving, or a washerwoman's enjoyment of a heavy wash, or a dustman's enjoyment of an overflowing dust-bin, or any other professional enjoyment of a mess in the way of business.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He at once resolved to accompany me to that island, ship aboard the same vessel, get into the same watch, the same boat, the same mess with me, in short to share my every hap; with both my hands in his, boldly dip into the Potluck of both worlds.
-- Even the cabin table itself had been knocked into kindling-wood; and the cabin mess dined off the broad head of an oil-butt, lashed down to the floor for a centrepiece.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She says, 'Take your hands away, Huckleberry; what a mess you are always making!'
-- I judged that that piece of paper meant that Miss Sophia was to meet Harney somewheres at half-past two and run off; and I judged I ought to told her father about that paper and the curious way she acted, and then maybe he would a locked her up, and this awful mess wouldn't ever happened.
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