The problem with this rigid type of plan is that unexpected things come up and mess up the rhythm of the plan.

这样死板的计划往往会被意外发生的情况所搅乱。

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We may fall down and mess up, but we get up and start again, and never give up. When in good times, all is right with youth!

也许我们会经历挫折和失败，但是我们从不气馁，从不认输，一直努力向前迈进，在最好的时光，歌舞青春！

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"If Congress and the administration mess this up each and every one of us will pay for the mistakes, as will generations to come.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

This was best summarized most famously by the British poet Philip Larkin who wrote, They mess you up, your mum and dad.

这一点被一位英国诗人菲利普·拉金,很好地总结了,他写道,他们害了你,你爸和你妈

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We're all out here trying to work hard and trying to clean up this mess."

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

It takes both conservatives and liberals to mess up like this.

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In her spare time, she likes to dance and sing in her bedroom, meet up with friends and mess around on her computer.

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Under Alan Greenspan its policy had been to stand back, wait for the pop and clean up the mess.

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