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单词 fiasco
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
fi•as•co /fiˈæskoʊ/USA pronunciation   n. [countable], pl. -cos, -coes. 
  1. a complete failure:The debate was a total fiasco.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
fi•as•co  (fē as′kō or, esp. for 2, -ä′skō),USA pronunciation n., pl. -cos, -coes. 
  1. a complete and ignominious failure.
  2. Winea round-bottomed glass flask for wine, esp. Chianti, fitted with a woven, protective raffia basket that also enables the bottle to stand upright.
  • Gmc (see flask1); sense "failure'' from Italian phrase far fiasco to fail, literally, to make a bottle, idiom of uncertain origin, originally
  • Italian: literally, bottle
  • 1850–55
    • 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged disaster, catastrophe, debacle, flop, bomb.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
fiasco /fɪˈæskəʊ/ n ( pl -cos, -coes)
  1. a complete failure, esp one that is ignominious or humiliating
Etymology: 19th Century: from Italian, literally: flask; sense development obscure
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