The president says he inherited the mess in the financial sector.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

Or if someone makes a mess in a, in a common area, they are expected to clean up that mess.

如果有人把公用区域弄脏了，那他就要负责打扫干净。

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But in the meantime you see that we can't mess with conventional systems by imposing the individuality of our will on them and expecting anything to change.

所以，我们不能,以个人的意志改变,一个事物在惯例中的意义。

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We know that,temporarily,we are in a mess."

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

They profess to have the same values, but the outcome of the execution, implementation of their values is the Iraq War and the mess and the whole mess that we find ourselves in today.

他们公开宣称具有同样的价值观，但他们的价值付诸实施的结果是,是伊拉克战争，是一团糟,我们现在正身处其中。

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"In addition to cleaning up the mess, repairing the damage and cracking down on big oil companies, we also have to get serious about ending our dependence on oil and creating new sources of clean energy."

VOA: standard.2010.07.31

It's in a terrible mess.

当时真的很糟糕

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"At this stage my priority is to have teams of people out there cleaning this mess up to protect wildlife in what may well be the worst environmental disaster that Queensland or the south-east of our State has faced."

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

But along with this conceptual framework, provided by none other than Thomas Hobbs in England, who had lived through the English Civil War and thought that you shouldn't mess around with this rights business, you need some sort of big powerful monarch there-- but there was a sense inherent in all of this.

但与之同存的另一种观点,是英国最具代表性的托马斯·霍布斯提出的,他经历过英国内战,且认为君主不该滥用手中权力,你需要的是一个有权利的君主,但这其中有一些内在的概念

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So, sometimes you'll find the Rydberg constant in different forms, but just make sure you pay attention to units because then you won't mess them up, because this is in inverse seconds here, the other Rydberg constant is in joules, so you'll be able to use what you need depending on how you're using that constant.

有时候你们会发现Rydberg常数,会写成不同的形式，但你们要注意,它的单位就不会弄错了，因为这里是秒的倒数，而另一个Rydberg常数是焦耳，所有你可以根据你要怎么使用,这个常数来选择你需要的常数。

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