fiasco

英 [fɪ'æskəʊ] 美 [fɪ'æsko]

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解释

n. 惨败
n. (Fiasco)人名；(意)菲亚斯科

※ 提供单词"fiasco"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

中文词源

fiasco 惨败

来自flask的意大利语拼写形式，瓶子，酒瓶。引申词义惨败，可能来自一种游戏，由输者支付酒钱，因而得名。

英文词源

fiasco: fiasco: [19] In Italian, a fiasco is literally a ‘bottle’ (the word comes from medieval Latin fiasco, source of English flagon and flask). Its figurative use apparently stems from the phrase far fiasco, literally ‘make a bottle’, used traditionally in Italian theatrical slang for ‘suffer a complete breakdown in performance’. The usual range of fanciful theories has been advanced for the origin of the usage, but none is particularly convincing.
=> flagon, flask
fiasco (n.): 1855, theater slang for "a failure in performance;" by 1862 it had acquired the general sense of "any ignominious failure or dismal flop," on or off the stage. It comes via the French phrase fiare fiasco "turn out a failure" (19c.), from Italian far fiasco "suffer a complete breakdown in performance," literally "make a bottle," from fiasco "bottle," from Late Latin flasco "bottle" (see flask).

The literal sense of the image (if it is one) is obscure today, but "the usual range of fanciful theories has been advanced" [Ayto]. Century Dictionary says "perhaps in allusion to the bursting of a bottle," Weekley pronounces it impenetrable and compares French ramasser un pelle "to come a cropper (in bicycling), literally to pick up a shovel." OED keeps its distance and lets nameless "Italian etymologists" make nebulous reference to "alleged incidents in Italian theatrical history." Klein suggests Venetian glass-crafters tossing aside imperfect pieces to be made later into common flasks. But according to an Italian dictionary, fare il fiasco used to mean "to play a game so that the one that loses will pay the fiasco," in other words, he will buy the next bottle (of wine). If the dates are not objectionable, that plausibly connects the literal sense of the word with the notion of "a costly mistake."

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例句和用法

1. The blame for the Charleston fiasco did not lie with him.: 查尔斯顿惨败错不在他。

2. 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。

3. "It's a fiasco," he stormed.: “这是场彻底的失败，”他怒吼道。

4. The meeting was a fiasco from start to finish.: 会议自始至终都失败了.

5. The new play was a fiasco.: 这一新戏完全失败了.