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Fiasco Disaster Describe 英 Fi'æskəʊ] 美 Fi'æskoʊ N.惨败 True

英语单词 fiasco
英美音标 英 [fi'æskəʊ] 美 [fi'æskoʊ]
中文释义 n.惨败
英语例句 (1) No true fiasco ever began as a quest for mere adequacy.
中文例句 (1) 探寻的道路上永远不会有真正的惨败。
vocabulary简明 A fiasco is a disaster. It's not a natural disaster — like an earthquake or a volcano; a fiasco is usually the result of human failure.
vocabulary扩展 Fiasco comes from the Italian term that means "to make a bottle." How it came to describe an utter, embarrassing, disaster in the English language is still unknown. Today, you'll hear fiasco used in situations that have gone so horribly awry that they are almost laughable, like the Thanksgiving dinner fiasco in which the turkey burnt to a crisp, the dog ate all the side dishes, and everyone had to eat frozen pizza instead.
柯林斯解释
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]彻底的失败;大败;惨败 If you describe an event or attempt to do something as a fiasco, you are emphasizing that it fails completely.
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  • The blame for the Charleston fiasco did not lie with him...

    查尔斯顿惨败错不在他。

  • It was a bit of a fiasco.

    这败得有点惨。

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