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debacle n.惨败；溃逃；灾难；狂流 (1) 他的首场演出一败涂地，观众发出嘘声把他轰下了台。(2) 滑铁卢的溃败暗示拿破仑政权的结束。(3) 败军在溃逃时有很多人被击毙或俘虏。(4) 意大利酒店经营者协会主席博卡认为结果是灾难性的。(5) 肠套叠灾难至今已过了六年，疫苗开发者对轮状病毒所下的赌注也开始回收。(6) 美国密西西比河泛滥成巨灾。 Debacle is sometimes used to describe a military defeat. If your army retreats, that's one thing. If your army is outmaneuvered and ends up huddled in a valley, surrounded on all sides by the enemy, forced to sing 70s sitcom theme songs by their savage captors––that's a debacle. Debacle comes from French débâcler "to clear," from Middle French desbacler, from the prefix des- "completely, utterly" plus bacler "to block."

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英 [deɪ'bɑːkl] 美 [deɪ'bɑːkl] (1) His first performance was a debacle: the audience booed him off the stage.(2) The debacle at Waterloo signaled the end of Napoleon's power.(3) Many men were shot or captured in the debacle.(4) Bernabo Bocca, chairman of the Italian hoteliers' association, described the results as a debacle.(5) Now, six years after the intussusception debacle, the rotavirus gamble is paying off.(6) The Mississippi River debacle caused great suffering. Use debacle to refer to a fiasco, disaster, or great failure. If several dogs run onto the field during the big baseball game, tripping players and chewing up the bases, you can call the whole event a debacle. in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 débâcle1[N-COUNT 可数名词]彻底的失败；惨败 A debacle is an event or attempt that is a complete failure. After the debacle of the war the world was never the same again...经历了这场战争的惨败之后，世界再也不是原来的那个样子了。The convention was a debacle.这次大会开得非常失败。

英语单词	debacle
英美音标	英 [deɪ'bɑːkl] 美 [deɪ'bɑːkl]
中文释义	n.惨败；溃逃；灾难；狂流
英语例句	(1) His first performance was a debacle: the audience booed him off the stage. (2) The debacle at Waterloo signaled the end of Napoleon's power. (3) Many men were shot or captured in the debacle. (4) Bernabo Bocca, chairman of the Italian hoteliers' association, described the results as a debacle. (5) Now, six years after the intussusception debacle, the rotavirus gamble is paying off. (6) The Mississippi River debacle caused great suffering.
中文例句	(1) 他的首场演出一败涂地，观众发出嘘声把他轰下了台。 (2) 滑铁卢的溃败暗示拿破仑政权的结束。 (3) 败军在溃逃时有很多人被击毙或俘虏。 (4) 意大利酒店经营者协会主席博卡认为结果是灾难性的。 (5) 肠套叠灾难至今已过了六年，疫苗开发者对轮状病毒所下的赌注也开始回收。 (6) 美国密西西比河泛滥成巨灾。
vocabulary简明	Use debacle to refer to a fiasco, disaster, or great failure. If several dogs run onto the field during the big baseball game, tripping players and chewing up the bases, you can call the whole event a debacle.
vocabulary扩展	Debacle is sometimes used to describe a military defeat. If your army retreats, that's one thing. If your army is outmaneuvered and ends up huddled in a valley, surrounded on all sides by the enemy, forced to sing 70s sitcom theme songs by their savage captors––that's a debacle. Debacle comes from French débâcler "to clear," from Middle French desbacler, from the prefix des- "completely, utterly" plus bacler "to block."
柯林斯解释	in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 débâcle 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]彻底的失败；惨败 A debacle is an event or attempt that is a complete failure. After the debacle of the war the world was never the same again... 经历了这场战争的惨败之后，世界再也不是原来的那个样子了。 The convention was a debacle. 这次大会开得非常失败。

Debacle Great Failure Event Army French 英 Deɪ'Bɑːkl] 美