| 词组 | muck |
| 释义 | muck [mucked, mucked, mucking] muck about/around 1. muck about/around BrE informal to behave in a silly way when you should be behaving sensibly: ▪ Stop mucking about, Ben, and come and sit here! ▪ I'd been mucking around with my mates so the teacher tried to kick me out of the classroom. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑mess around/about informal, ↑fool around AmE informal 2. muck about/around BrE informal to have fun by doing whatever you want to do, rather than doing anything organized: ▪ We spent most of our time mucking around on the beach. ▪ Pupils at Kensington infants' school are having a marvellous time just mucking about. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑mess around/about informal 3. muck sb about/around BrE informal to make things difficult for someone or treat them badly, especially by changing your mind or plans a lot without considering them: ▪ "You ought to be sorry for mucking your family around like that," said Patsy. ▪ I'm sorry for mucking you around, but I can't make Friday after all. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑mess around/about informal muck about/around with muck about/around with sth informal, especially BrE to touch something that is not yours, or to change something that does not need to be changed: ▪ I wish you wouldn't muck about with the things in my room. ▪ They're always mucking about with the bus timetables! muck in muck in BrE informal to share whatever work needs doing in order to help get it done, especially in a cheerful way: ▪ The members of a family should share the domestic duties and muck in together. ▪ Everybody mucked in and helped clean the place up. muck out muck out • muck out sth • muck sth out BrE to clean the place where a horse or a farm animal lives: ▪ There's a lot of hard work involved in having a horse - mucking out, feeding and grooming. ▪ Charles spent a week working with a farmer - he even mucked out cattle yards and fed the pigs. muck up 1. muck up sth • muck sth up informal, especially BrE to spoil something, especially an arrangement or plan: ▪ When Mark failed to turn up on time, it totally mucked up our plans. ▪ Bob had got his own life sorted out by then, and he didn't want Jody coming back and mucking things up. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑mess up informal, ↑screw up informal 2. muck up sth • muck sth up informal, especially BrE to do something very badly, so that you fail to succeed or achieve something: ▪ Lisa aimed the gun carefully, anxious not to muck up her second shot. ▪ I was amazed when I got an `A' in History. I thought I'd really mucked it up. muck-up n C when someone does something badly or fails to do something: ▪ I made a real muck-up of my French exam. 3. muck up sth • muck sth up BrE informal to make something dirty or untidy: ▪ Take those boots off or you'll muck up my clean floor. ▪ I don't want to let the house to students - they'll only muck it up. |
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