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fiasco [fɪ'æsko]

n. 惨败, 大失败

Who do we have to thank for this fiasco?
我们遭此惨败怨谁呢?
The party was a fiasco.
那次聚会完全失败了。
The mass rally was a total fiasco.
那次群众集会彻底失败。

fiasco
fiascoes

[ noun ]
a sudden and violent collapse
<noun.event>

Fiasco \Fi*as"co\, n.; pl. {Fiascoes}. [It.]
A complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical
performance, or of any pretentious undertaking.

The fiasco over the scheduling of News at Ten highlights in technicolour the unwieldy operation of the ITV network.
Asked why, Regan said: "Well, the thing had been a fiasco up to that point, in my judgment it had not worked.
Possibly the personnel office was taking its cue from Treasury Secretary James Baker, who distanced himself from the W-4 fiasco early on.
"I think the board in this case was trying to strike a strong degree of independence, and show it was going to put the company up to the highest bidder," Galante said. "It turned out to be a fiasco.
By week's end, FDA officials had come up with a way to recover from an advisory-committee meeting widely viewed as a fiasco.
In addition, the fiasco has sparked a broad retreat to tougher lending standards, and now people are finding it harder to buy homes.
They seem to show constant interest in expanding the government. This credit-card fiasco is one example of that.
Another year, another fiasco: Washington yawns.
FT-SE Index: 2,522.7 (-8.0) Allied-Lyons' remarkable letter to shareholders shows why the company was initially so unwilling to elaborate the bare facts of its foreign exchange fiasco.
A federal judge approved a partial $9.5 million settlement by Banque Populaire Suisse of two class-action lawsuits arising from the 1980 Hunt brothers' silver fiasco.
The disparity signals a need for the newspaper industry and the Justice Department to discuss disclosure issues to prevent "this kind of fiasco in the future," McGuire said.
Two top executives resigned following the fiasco.
The "fiasco," as the internal investigation calls it, is expected to cost nearly $1 million by the time all the probes are completed.
Conveniently for the government, Friday's report from the mining engineers John T. Boyd gave structural support to the likely emergency exit route from the coal fiasco.
Disposable personal income, the amount of money people have to spend, is apparently being buoyed in the first quarter by the W-4 fiasco.
Rather than playing down the realm of foreign policy, as some advisers had proposed in the weeks following the Iran fiasco, President Reagan renewed his commitment to the Contra rebels fighting the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
The GE refrigerator-compressor fiasco is a symptom of Jack Welch's management style.
The bank's international reputation had received a severe battering due to the foreign exchange fiasco. Imposition of the recent restrictions raised a few eyebrows in the international banking community.
"Best Laid Plans: The Inside Story of America's War Against Terrorism" (Harper & Row, 392 pages, $22.50) begins with the failed attempt to rescue the American hostages in Tehran in 1980, and ends with the Iran-Contra fiasco.
For the past two years, Mr Fay and his team have been struggling to recover from the fiasco of the loss-making Lexterten furniture business, which left the group with a crippling debt and a precarious relationship with its bankers.
Two Indian-American students canceled one arranged by their families two years ago after a chaperoned night of drinking and dancing turned into a fiasco.
Then, at the show's end, came the phone-call fiasco.
Seen as the prelude to a possible bid, the move turned into a fiasco as Lovell shares collapsed on the back of unexpectedly large provisions.
Mindful, however, of the Iran-Contra arms and money fiasco, the officials have insisted they would deal only with "authorized" Iranians.
An angry exchange of lawsuits and press interviews saw each side accusing the other of greed and bad faith, and the episode quickly turned into a public-relations fiasco for both companies.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government agonized over the decision, fearful of repeating the fiasco that ended in 1986 when it wrote off a dud British spy plane called the Nimrod.
Especially so since President Bush has been weakened by the Panama fiasco.
I well remember the fiasco in 1985 when John McEnroe won a magnificent five-set battle against Mats Wilander.
When the Iran-Contra hearings ended, many of the committee members, especially Democrats, expressed dismay about the foreign-policy fiasco that had unfolded in the testimony they heard.
The NSA's first marketing efforts were a fiasco.

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