The kids made a mess in the bathroom.

孩子们把浴室搞得一塌糊涂。

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The biggest question is how they got into this mess in the first place.

关键问题是他们究竟是怎么惹出这样的麻烦的。

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Forgive the mess in here, we have a party last night.

这里太乱了，抱歉，我们昨晚开了派对。

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Particularly employees who got them into this mess in the first place. I think it is an outrage."

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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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She was agitated when she spoke about the mess in the porch, he said.

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He surrounded himself with a lot of people who caused the mess in the first place.

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