fiasco

noun

1. 惨败；可耻的失败；尴尬的结局
   something that does not succeed, often in a way that causes embarrassment
   1. What a fiasco!
      真是使人下不了台！

1. 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.
   1. The blame for the Charleston fiasco did not lie with him...
      查尔斯顿惨败错不在他。
   2. It was a bit of a fiasco.
      这败得有点惨。

1. The blame for the Charleston fiasco did not lie with him
   查尔斯顿惨败错不在他。
2. It was a bit of a fiasco.
   这败得有点惨。
3. 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。
4. 'It's a fiasco,' he stormed.
   “这是场彻底的失败，”他怒吼道。
5. The meeting was a fiasco from start to finish.
   会议自始至终都失败了。
6. BMW itself went through a management upheaval after the rover fiasco but emerged stronger than ever.
   在收购罗孚遭遇惨败后，宝马自己也经历了一次管理层的巨大动荡，但重出江湖后却比以前任何时候都所向披靡。
7. There were a few bugs spotted and fixed, but nothing on the scale of the buzz fiasco.
   虽然Google+仍爆出了不少缺陷，随后才得到修复，但与Buzz当时的惨败相比，这些缺陷无关痛痒。
8. A multicultural personnel integration would be difficult; Daimler's Chrysler fiasco shows how tough these projects can be.
   跨文化的人事整合将是一个难点；戴姆勒（Daimler）旗下克莱斯勒（Chrysler）的惨败显示出达成这些目标有多难。
9. You might recognize that this problem is similar to the C++ static initialization fiasco.
   您可能认识到了，这个问题与C++静态初始化失败很相似。
10. I'll never live down this fiasco!
    我永远不会原谅这次惨败！
11. So who's to blame for this fiasco?
    那么，谁的责任，这惨败？
12. Daimler's Chrysler fiasco shows how tough these projects can be.
    戴姆勒（Daimler）旗下克莱斯勒（Chrysler）的惨败显示出达成这些目标有多难。
13. Cheer up! Boys and girls, a failure is not a fiasco.
    振作起来，小伙子和姑娘们，一次失败并不是彻底的失败。
14. Besides, as a senior UN official laments, the Iraq fiasco has "poisoned this well".
    另外作为联合国官方的一大痛楚，伊拉克的惨败已经“严重毒化了这一概念”。
15. This pensions fiasco, more than anything, is what has undermined Mr Abe's fortunes.
    养老金事件的失误，比任何其他事件都严重的破坏了安倍首相的政治资本。
16. Mr Ricks's acclaimed previous book," Fiasco", chronicled America's march towards perdition in Iraq.
    瑞克斯大受好评的前作《大败局》记录了美国在伊拉克走向毁灭的历程；
17. Still, the worst thing was that I was becoming known for the fiasco and not the book.
    不过，最糟糕的事情还是我现在出名了，不是因为我的书，却是因为一次惨痛的失败。
18. Confiscation of your property is the one thing you don't want on your list of financial fiasco.
    没收你的财产是一回事，你不想在你的名单中的金融混乱。
19. He commented that the project was a fiasco.
    他发表意见说这项计画是个大失败。
20. Their attempt to make public disorder ended in fiasco.
    他们扰乱社会秩序的企图彻底失败了。
21. They tended to have more retirees and therefore more anger about the pensions fiasco.
    在这些地区，退休人口往往更多，因此对养老金问题更感愤怒。
22. Less than two months before the Facebook fiasco, another IPO suffered an even more shocking fate.
    Facebook上市灾难的不到两个月前，另一场IPO的命运更加令人震惊。
23. The Georgian fiasco may be one such event.
    格鲁吉亚的惨败也许便是这样一个小事件。
24. I think this whole thing is a farce, a fiasco.
    我想这一切是场闹剧，一个大的失败。
25. Let's not have a replay of last week's fiasco.
    我们别再让上星期的惨败重演。
26. We don't want a rerun of monday's fiasco.
    我们可别让星期一的惨败重演。
27. Travers says the fiasco has undermined Murdoch in Britain and may do so in the United States as well.
    特拉维斯说，这个事件损害了默多克在英国，也或许在美国的地位。
28. The party was a fiasco [ ended in fiasco].
    那次聚会完全失败了[结果失败了]。
29. You guaranteed me this French fiasco wouldn't happen.
    你保证过法国不会惨败的。
30. Murdoch testified he does not consider himself personally responsible for the fiasco.
    默多克在议会作证时说，他并不认为他个人应该为这场挫败负责。

  failure defeat fiasco flop【导航词义：失败】

  failure n. 失败；失败的人，失败的事

〔辨析〕指做某事时未能达成目标，也可指不成功的人或事。

  defeat n. 失败

〔辨析〕多指在与某一方的对抗中所遭遇的失败，如在战争、比赛、竞选等中的失利，也可泛指未能做成某事。

  fiasco n. 惨败

〔辨析〕指让人十分难堪或失望的彻底失败。

  flop n. 〈非正式〉失败之作

〔辨析〕指不受欢迎的产品、电影、戏剧等。

noun

1. a sudden and violent collapse

   Synonym:    debacle