fiasco是什么意思？

fiasco

英[fiˈæskəʊ] 美[fiˈæskoʊ]

• n. 彻底失败，惨败；

复数：fiascos;

例句

• The new play was a fiasco. 这一新戏完全失败了。
• The resort to air charters turned out to be a fiasco. 采用包租飞机的办法完全失败.
• These Clausewtzian commonplaces will shed light on the grotesque fiasco at Leyte Gulf. 克劳塞维茨这几句平易浅显的话,可以说明莱特湾那一次近似荒唐的失败原因.
• A fistfight had turned into a pistol - whipping, bullet - flying fiasco. 一场斗殴最终演变成了枪弹横飞的械斗惨案.
• It was a bit of a fiasco. 这败得有点惨。
• The blame for the Charleston fiasco did not lie with him... 查尔斯顿惨败错不在他。
• "It's a fiasco," he stormed. “这是场彻底的失败，”他怒吼道。
• The blame for the Charleston fiasco did not lie with him. 查尔斯顿惨败错不在他。
• 'It's a fiasco,' he stormed. “这是场彻底的失败，”他怒吼道。
• 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。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  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.
  例句
  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。

英汉词典释义

• n.
  彻底失败, 惨败
  The new play was a fiasco. 这一新戏完全失败了。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a sudden and violent collapse