點滴英語天天學第175期:雅思詞彙(14)
1.表述：basket case
釋義：A person who is a nervous wreck. （精神極度緊張的人，精神頻臨崩潰的人）
例句：After that all-day meeting, I was practically a basket case.
開了一整天的會之後，我的精神上幾乎要崩潰了。
My weeks of worry were so intense that I was a real basket case afterwards.
我連續幾周的焦慮是如此的強烈，以至於後來我的精神真完全崩潰了。
A: What happened to the former boss?
你之前的老闆發生什麼事情了？
B: He has been a basket case here since his company went bankrupt and his wife left him.
自從他的公司破產，太太離棄他之後，他精神頻臨崩潰。
2.表述：mess up
釋義 1： To make a mistake. （犯錯誤）
例句：I'm worried that I messed up the last question on the test—it sounds like no one got the same answer as me.
我擔心我把最後一道題考砸了——聽起來好像沒有人的答案和我的一樣。
釋義2：To cause one to make a mistake. （使......犯錯誤）
例句：I got all flustered when the boss walked in during my presentation—it totally messed me up!
老闆在我演講的時候走進來，在這時候，我變得非常緊張，這使得我完全搞砸了。
釋義3：To damage or harm someone or something. （傷害某人，毀壞某事）
例句：If you don't regularly get your oil changed, you could really mess up your engine.
如果你不經常換機油，你可能會把發動機弄壞。
Mother warned us not to mess up the clean floor.
母親警告我們不要把乾淨的地板弄髒了。
Mike, I hope I have not mess up your arrangement too much .
Mike, 希望我沒有過多地打亂你的安排。
今天，我們學習了2個生動形象的雅思語彙：basket case，mess up.Hope that you can bear them in mind.
