a mess of

基本解释

At his death, his heirs found only a mess of manuscripts.
他死后，继承人只找到一些杂乱无章的手稿。
It's a bad play, it's only hoked up with a mess of wastes.
这是一部很差的话剧，它是由乱七八糟的垃圾拼凑起来的。
Then, if you later get the opportunity to refresh or even redesign a site like this, you can start from well-segmented HTML and CSS, not a mess of convoluted and style-laden HTML.
然后，如果以后您有机会更新甚至重新设计一个类似的站点，您可以从分段良好的 HTML 和 CSS 开始，而不是从令人费解和样式紊乱的 HTML 开始。

Hello. I'm afraid your hunting activitieshave caused something of a mess for us.
You can certainly hit Enter but as we saw-- seen that very quickly makes a mess of your code and such and so backslash N is new line.
你也可以敲回车键-,但是会让你的代码看起来乱七八糟,反斜杠n就是换行符。
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All officials from the chancelleries that he had created and all of the officers were obliged to attend this torture scene as a way of warning them that, "You'd better not mess around."
他所有的内阁大臣和官员们,都被迫出席拷打的场面,这么做是以儆效尤,"你们最好别到处惹是生非"
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Now they're mired in a mess of Tax Court cases, with the IRS demanding millions.
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