fiasco
n. 惨败, 大失败
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教材释义与例句
惨败
释义与例句
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1.
A sudden or unexpected failure.
The event turned into a complete fiasco when the power went out.
His speech was a fiasco that left the audience confused.
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2.
A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
惨败
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3.
A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.
词汇关系
词源
Borrowed from Italian fiasco (“bottle, flask”), from Late Latin flasca, flascō (“bottle, container”), from Frankish *flaskā (“bottle, flask”) from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“bottle”); see flask. “Failure” sense comes through French faire fiasco from Italian theatrical slang far fiasco (literally “to make a bottle”), of uncertain origin; perhaps from an expression fare il fiasco, meaning to play a game with the forfeit that the loser will buy the next bottle or round of drinks. Doublet of flacon, flagon, and flask.
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