- 1慘敗、一場大失敗（偏公開出醜，不是小錯）
A fiasco is a complete failure, the kind that makes you feel foolish in front of other people, or that leaves everyone disappointed: a show, a party, a plan, a meeting that falls apart in public. It is stronger and more colourful than a small mistake. One wrong answer in class is not a fiasco; a school play where the lights die and half the cast forget their lines might be. People often say “a complete fiasco” or “the whole thing was a fiasco.” The tone is informal to neutral, sometimes almost funny — you are naming a mess, not writing a quiet report. Though actually, the word first meant a bottle in Italian. English kept the disaster sense and left the bottle behind.
From the word’s history
From Italian fiasco 'bottle, flask'; the 'failure' sense, via French faire fiasco from Italian theatre slang far fiasco, is of uncertain origin.
借自義大利文 fiasco「瓶子」；「失敗」的意思來源不明。
組成Borrowed from Italian fiasco (“bottle, flask”), from Late Latin flasca / flascō (“bottle”), from Frankish *flaskā, from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ; see flask. The “failure” sense came through French faire fiasco, from Italian theatrical slang far fiasco, literally “to make a bottle,” of uncertain origin; perhaps from fare il fiasco, a drinking game where the loser bought the next bottle.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fiasconoun/fiˈæs.kəʊ/
- 1
A sudden or unexpected failure.
- The event turned into a complete fiasco when the power went out.
- His speech was a fiasco that left the audience confused.
- 2
A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
- There was the fiasco about Olga coming to the tableaux, which was the cause of her sending that very tart reply, via Miss Lyall, to Lady Ambermere's impertinence, and the very next morning, Lady Ambermere, coming again into Riseholme, perhaps for that very purpose, had behaved to Lucia as Lucia had behaved to the moon, and cut her. That was irritating, but the counter-irritant to it had been that Lady Ambermere had then gone to Olga's, and been told that she was not at home, though she was very audibly practising in her music-room at the time.
- 3
A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.
- I sent for the porter and when he came I told him in Italian to get me a bottle of Cinzano at the wine shop, a fiasco of chianti and the evening papers. He went away and brought them wrapped in newspaper, unwrapped them and, when I asked him to, drew the corks and put the wine and vermouth under the bed.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。