She made a mess of the work.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一团糟
chaos
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
chaos
02
bungle
03
complete mess
04
shambles
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一团糟 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一团糟 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
The principal severely reproved the students whenever they made a mess in the hallway.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一团糟.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一团糟.
Directly before
- 得一团糟2
- 变得一团糟1
- 现场一团糟1
Directly after
- 一团糟的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 一团糟
What does 一团糟 mean in Chinese?
一团糟 (yītuánzāo) means chaos.
How do you pronounce 一团糟?
一团糟 is pronounced yītuánzāo.
Is 一团糟 an HSK word?
一团糟 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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