He made a God-awful mess of it!

他把事情弄得一塌糊涂！

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The kitchen was an awful mess.

厨房里整一烂摊子。

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The children have made an awful mess in the room.

孩子们把这房间弄得凌乱不堪了。

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They do a contest--those of you who like to enter contests--saying, "how can we break out of this awful mess, oh, whatever can we do?"

曾有一个比赛,问参赛者们,"我们该如何化解当前窘境,我们到底该怎么办"

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Intel seems in an awful mess of late, caught as a big supplier for the fading PC industry and a struggling contender in the fast-growing mobile devices market.

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Which really does rather mess up an awful lot of business practices on the net.

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Perhaps, if wisdom once again rears its head, this mess will be so awful the president and Congress will get back to the bargaining table and come up with a long-term solution.

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