| 词汇 | fiasco |
| 释义 | fiasco noun[ C ] uk /fiˈæs.kəʊ/ us /fiˈæs.koʊ/pluralfiascos or mainly USfiascoes something planned that goes wrong and is a complete failure, usually in an embarrassing way: 完全失败；尴尬的结局 The show was a fiasco - one actor forgot his lines and another fell off the stage.演出彻底搞砸了，一个演员忘了台词，另一个跌下了舞台。 Synonym debacle the fact of not being successful failureFailure is not an option. breakdownThe complete breakdown of local infrastructure left residents without water or electricity. meltdownThe markets experienced a meltdown at the news of the sale. collapseThe car manufacturer's collapse left the region's economy in tatters. failHe tried to sing the anthem, but it was an epic fail. Failures another/the final nail in the coffinidiom bloodbath brain freeze breakdown busted flush car crash false dawn flameout flop foul (something) up freefall hash lemon loser parody post-crash pratfall reversal slim pickings slush pile fiasco | American Dictionaryfiasco noun[ C ] us/fiˈæs·koʊ/pluralfiascoes or fiascos a complete failure: The entire political campaign was a fiasco, and at the end he drew only 30% of the votes. Examples of fiascofiasco The only military expedition, in 1624, ended in a fiasco. The real cause for the ' fiasco ' was the ' intrinsic deficiencies ' of the movement. Unfortunately, though, the causes of a success or fiasco are rarely analysed in much detail. Labour identifiers were not significantly more or less likely than other voters to participate, despite any general disillusion occasioned by the party leadership fiasco. However, the expedition proved to be a complete fiasco. The communist uprising of 1923 was a fiasco. Indigenista experiments were generally a fiasco, and the pluralist moment short-lived. In the early to mid 1990s when it became apparent that this initial stimulus to the private market had been a costly fiasco, there was a considerable consumer backlash. The by-election turned into a political fiasco. The operation was a fiasco. Despite hundreds of false testimonies and the plethora of fabricated evidence, the indictment is turning into a fiasco. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English It is an apt phrase for a fiasco that cost £13.5 billion, which still haunts the industry's reputation today. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are unpopular even before the spectacle of a flotation fiasco doomed to partial or total failure despite the hidden write-off of £5·5 billion debt. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We had the absolute fiasco of the gap year last summer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is not the air-raid precautions scheme the greatest fiasco ever known? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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