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fiasco

英 [fiˈæskəʊ]

美 [fiˈæskoʊ]

n.  惨败; 可耻的失败; 尴尬的结局

复数:fiascos 

GRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.11884 / COCA.12481

同义词辨析

failuredefeatfiascoflop【导航词义:失败】

failuren. 失败;失败的人,失败的事
〔辨析〕
指做某事时未能达成目标,也可指不成功的人或事。
〔例证〕
Their action ended in failure.
他们的行动以失败而告终。
She felt she was a failure in the others' eyes.
她觉得在别人眼中自己是个失败的人。
His election campaign was a complete failure.
他的竞选活动完全失败。
defeatn. 失败
〔辨析〕
多指在与某一方的对抗中所遭遇的失败,如在战争、比赛、竞选等中的失利,也可泛指未能做成某事。
〔例证〕
a narrow defeat
惜败
The commander admitted defeat in the battle.
指挥官承认此次战役失败了。
fiascon. 惨败
〔辨析〕
指让人十分难堪或失望的彻底失败。
〔例证〕
His first audition was a fiasco.
他第一次试镜彻底失败。
He hoped that the supper his girlfriend made would not be a fiasco.
他希望女朋友做的晚饭不会完全无法下咽。
flopn. 〈非正式〉失败之作
〔辨析〕
指不受欢迎的产品、电影、戏剧等。
〔例证〕
The flop of the novel discouraged the writer.
小说的失败让作者非常沮丧。
The monotonous dialogue made the film a complete flop.
单调的对白使这部电影一败涂地。

牛津词典

    noun

    • 惨败;可耻的失败;尴尬的结局
      something that does not succeed, often in a way that causes embarrassment
      1. What a fiasco!
        真是使人下不了台!

    柯林斯词典

    • N-COUNT 彻底的失败;大败;惨败
      If you describe an event or attempt to do something as afiasco, you are emphasizing that it fails completely.
      1. The blame for the Charleston fiasco did not lie with him...
        查尔斯顿惨败错不在他。
      2. It was a bit of a fiasco.
        这败得有点惨。

    英英释义

    noun

    • a sudden and violent collapse
        Synonym:debacle

      双语例句

      • Their attempt to make public disorder ended in fiasco.
        他们扰乱社会秩序的企图彻底失败了。
      • Besides, as a senior UN official laments, the Iraq fiasco has "poisoned this well".
        另外作为联合国官方的一大痛楚,伊拉克的惨败已经“严重毒化了这一概念”。
      • The meeting was a fiasco from start to finish.
        会议自始至终都失败了。
      • I'll never live down this fiasco!
        我永远不会原谅这次惨败!
      • BMW itself went through a management upheaval after the rover fiasco but emerged stronger than ever.
        在收购罗孚遭遇惨败后,宝马自己也经历了一次管理层的巨大动荡,但重出江湖后却比以前任何时候都所向披靡。
      • He commented that the project was a fiasco.
        他发表意见说这项计画是个大失败。
      • There were a few bugs spotted and fixed, but nothing on the scale of the buzz fiasco.
        虽然Google+仍爆出了不少缺陷,随后才得到修复,但与Buzz当时的惨败相比,这些缺陷无关痛痒。
      • His last visit to Washington was little short of a fiasco.
        他最近对华盛顿的访问几乎是一场惨败。
      • Daimler's Chrysler fiasco shows how tough these projects can be.
        戴姆勒(Daimler)旗下克莱斯勒(Chrysler)的惨败显示出达成这些目标有多难。
      • Less than two months before the Facebook fiasco, another IPO suffered an even more shocking fate.
        Facebook上市灾难的不到两个月前,另一场IPO的命运更加令人震惊。