fiasco
英 [fɪ'æskəʊ]
美[fɪ'æsko]
- n. 惨败
- n. (Fiasco)人名；(意)菲亚斯科
词态变化
复数: fiascos;
助记提示
1. fiasc- （谐音“非哀失客”-----非常悲哀的失败了的人、非常悲哀的失败了的客人） + -o （意大利语后缀）=> fiasco: 既然是非常悲哀的那种失败，当然就是惨败了。
2. flagon, flask => fiasco: perhaps from 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), to the notion of "a costly mistake".
3. Fiasco一词来源于意大利语，本意是“长颈瓶，玻璃瓶”。从19世纪中期起，人们开始用fiasco来表示“完全的失败，惨败”。那么，“惨败”和“瓶子”之间究竟有什么联系呢？这里有两种说法。
第一种说法认为fiasco的“惨败”之义起源于剧院。在戏剧表演中，fare fiasco指的是“说错台词”或“表演失误”。这可能与发生在舞台上的某次意外有关，比如摔破瓶子。久而久之，fare fiasco就成了“灾祸”的代名词了。
第二种推测的可能性更大。这种说法认为fare fiasco和意大利的吹玻璃工人有关。工人在制造饰品过程中如果出了差错，就将这些废玻璃留下来，供制造质量稍次的长颈瓶或玻璃瓶使用，也就是这里所说的fare fiasco（制造瓶子）。而fare fiasco或fiasco则进一步被引申为 “差错”或“出差错的行为”。
2. flagon, flask => fiasco: perhaps from 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), to the notion of "a costly mistake".
3. Fiasco一词来源于意大利语，本意是“长颈瓶，玻璃瓶”。从19世纪中期起，人们开始用fiasco来表示“完全的失败，惨败”。那么，“惨败”和“瓶子”之间究竟有什么联系呢？这里有两种说法。
第一种说法认为fiasco的“惨败”之义起源于剧院。在戏剧表演中，fare fiasco指的是“说错台词”或“表演失误”。这可能与发生在舞台上的某次意外有关，比如摔破瓶子。久而久之，fare fiasco就成了“灾祸”的代名词了。
第二种推测的可能性更大。这种说法认为fare fiasco和意大利的吹玻璃工人有关。工人在制造饰品过程中如果出了差错，就将这些废玻璃留下来，供制造质量稍次的长颈瓶或玻璃瓶使用，也就是这里所说的fare fiasco（制造瓶子）。而fare fiasco或fiasco则进一步被引申为 “差错”或“出差错的行为”。
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。
英英释意
- 1. a sudden and violent collapse
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."
实用场景例句
- What a fiasco!
- 真是使人下不了台！
牛津词典
- It was a bit of a fiasco.
- 这败得有点惨。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The blame for the Charleston fiasco did not lie with him...
- 查尔斯顿惨败错不在他。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The company was still reeling from the Edsel fiasco a couple of years back.
- 鉴于几年前,在埃德·塞尔事件中惨败,公司仍处在余震之中.
辞典例句
- Kennedy faced the Bay of Pigs fiasco after just a few weeks on the job.
- 没有人会说他处理得好.
期刊摘选
- But why had he had a total fiasco at last?
- 那为何最后他会如此惨败?
期刊摘选
- No true fiasco ever began as a quest fore mere adequacy.
- 探寻的道路上永远不会有真正的惨败.
期刊摘选
- It was a fiasco.
- 那是一次惨败.
期刊摘选
- This fiasco confirmed Kennedy's impression of Phoumi's singular incompetence.
- 这次惨败更加坚定了肯尼迪认为富米毫无能力的看法.
辞典例句
- I know our last escape attempt aa fiasco.
- 我知道上次的逃跑行动有点儿失败.
期刊摘选
- These Clausewtzian commonplaces will shed light on the grotesque fiasco at Leyte Gulf.
- 克劳塞维茨这几句平易浅显的话,可以说明莱特湾那一次近似荒唐的失败原因.
辞典例句
- The enemy's plot ended in a fiasco.
- 敌人的阴谋以可耻的失败告终.
辞典例句
- I know our last escape attempt was a bit of a fiasco.
- 我知道我们上次的逃跑有些失败.
期刊摘选
- We don't want a rerun of Monday's fiasco.
- 我们可别让星期一的惨败重演.
期刊摘选
- As a result, the first pass at assigning merit dollars is a fiasco.
- 结果, 第一途径在分配业绩单元惨败.
期刊摘选
- Conrad: Didn't you get the memo? It's the debriefing from the promotion fiasco last quarter.
- 康拉德: 你没收到备忘录 吗 ?是有关上一季促销活动失败的报告.
期刊摘选
- It ended in a fiasco.
- 它在一片混乱中时结束.
期刊摘选
- The currency fiasco will accelerate these trends.
- 货币改革的惨败将会加快这些趋势.
期刊摘选
- The party was a fiasco [ ended in fiasco ].
- 那次聚会完全失败了 [ 结果失败了 ].
期刊摘选
- The new play was a fiasco.
- 这一新戏完全失败了.
《简明英汉词典》
- After the divorce her situation has become a hectic fiasco.
- (她离婚后,情况变成乱七八糟.)
期刊摘选
- 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.
期刊摘选
- The fiasco in its schools puts all that in jeopardy.
- 但愿学校的混乱不会让这一切努力付诸东流.
期刊摘选
- Meanwhile, the British government is scrambling to avert a similar fiasco.
- 与此同时, 英国政府正赶着避免类似的竹篮打水一场空.
期刊摘选
- Helen: Things happen to people who drink Fiasco.
- 海伦: 在那些喝费亚斯可的人身上总会有事情发生.
期刊摘选
- He commented that the project was a fiasco.
- 他发表意见说这项计画是个大失败.
期刊摘选
- You do that! This whole parade is a fiasco!
- 你要是这么做这个游行就完了!
期刊摘选
- The meeting was a fiasco from start to finish.
- 会议自始至终都失败了.
《简明英汉词典》
- The blame for the Charleston fiasco did not lie with him.
- 查尔斯顿惨败错不在他。
柯林斯例句
- "It's a fiasco," he stormed.
- “这是场彻底的失败，”他怒吼道。
柯林斯例句