A dismal failure;a fiasco .

惨败令人沮丧的失败;大溃败

A disastrous failure; a fiasco .

惨重的失败;彻底失败

The enemy’s plot ended in a fiasco .

敌人的阴谋以可耻的失败告终。

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。

The party was a fiasco .

那次聚会完全失败了。

The party was a fiasco [ended in fiasco].

那次聚会完全失败了[结果失败了]。

The mass rally was a total fiasco .

那次群众集会彻底失败。

The party was a total fiasco because the wrong date was given on the invitation.

那个聚会落得一场空，因为请帖上的日期弄错了。

Subsequent events showed that the fingerprint was neither from the officer nor from a thumb but it was from a forefingerThe Scotland fiasco points up the fact that matches are made by people--and people sometimes make mistakes

随后的事件表明，这枚指纹既不是这名警官的，也不是拇指指纹(是食指指纹)。苏格兰的这次失败清楚地表明，指纹鉴定是由人完成的，而人有时会犯错。

Their attempts to make public disorder ended in fiasco .

他们妄图扰乱社会治安，但最后以彻底失败告终。

We don’t want a rerun of Monday’s fiasco .

我们可别让星期一的惨败重演.

Who do we have to thank for this fiasco ?

我们遭此惨败怨谁呢?

penny-stocks controversy/penny-stocks fiasco

仙股事件/仙股风波

The play was a fiasco .

这部戏演出失败。

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。

The party was a total fiasco .

这次晚会完全失败了.

The fiasco for KMT has a lot to do with Lee Teng-hui, who was forced to step down as chairman of KMT and is to leave his post as president of Taiwan in May.

这个事实的造成，与刚辞去国民党主席、即将卸任的台湾当局领导人李登辉有极大的关系。

||1:Besides, ask sceptics, why should Ms Fernández strike a bargain that would bring political benefits mainly to her successor? She will stand down as president after elections next October; none of the prospective candidates so far has her backing.||2:The easiest course of action would be to hand off the debt fiasco to the next president—and let the economy pay the price.

||1:此外，怀疑人士还提出了一个问题：为什么费尔南德斯总统会签署一份政治利益主要荫泽后任的协议呢？过了明年十月，她就要从总统任上退休了；这些候选人里并无她所支持的对象。||2:最简单的做法就绕过债务泥潭，让下一任总统收拾烂摊子—代价就让经济来付吧。

||1: But some scepticism is in order. A scheme to computerise the medical records of every patient in England has turned into a spectacularly expensive fiasco . ||2: Gartner, a technology consultancy, observes in a recent report that tech firms are rushing to rebrand their products with the latest “cloud” buzzword, “whether they actually are cloud offerings or not.” ||3: The danger is that America’s health services have foisted upon them whatever the industry has to sell, rather than what is needed.

||1:但是，存在一些质疑也是合理的。英国使用计算机处理所有患者的病历，结果该计划变成了烧钱的无底洞。||2:高德纳技术咨询公司在最近的一份报告中注意到，无论是否提供云服务，科技公司们都一窝蜂儿地用最近的热词“云”来重塑其品牌。||3:危机之处在于，美国的医疗服务不追求行业需求，而是一味骗售自己提供的所有产品。

Undeterred by the Kashagan fiasco , this week the government said it would approve a plan to expand the onshore Tengiz oilfield, another huge budget-buster. Tengiz was first expected to cost 23 billion but the government said this week that the bill had risen to 40 billion.

并未被卡沙干的惨败而有所动摇,本周政府表示,它将批准一项计划,扩大陆上田吉兹油田,这是另一个巨大的花钱能手。田吉兹油田初始预估会花费230亿美元,但政府本周表示,该账单已升至400亿美元。

One of the world’s biggest oil projects has become a fiasco

世界上最大的石油项目之一惨败

A scheme to computerise the medical records of every patient in England has turned into a spectacularly expensive fiasco .

英国使用计算机处理所有患者的病历，结果该计划变成了烧钱的无底洞。

On April 22nd the head of the exams regulator, who had resigned after the fiasco , told MPs that ministers had made him the fall guy.

4月22日，因测试工作惨败而引咎辞职的主管官员告诉下院议员，他成为了大臣们的替罪羔羊。

And it said it would appoint an independent body to review the fiasco in addition to conducting an internal review of its privacy practices.

Google表示它将指派一个独立机构对错误进行检查，并就其私隐保护工作进行内部审查。

Sandberg also will help Facebook avoid another privacy fiasco such as the storm caused by its Beacon ad-tracking technology.

Sandberg还有助于Facebook避免陷入类似于先前Beacon广告跟踪技术导致的隐私风波。

Mr Obama retorted by talking about Mr McCain’s role in the Keating Five scandal, part of a savings-and-loan fiasco in the 1980s.

奥巴马则反唇相讥地扯出了麦凯恩在19世纪80年代的“基廷五人组”丑闻中扮演的角色。

The fiasco of the Olympic Torch Relay has focused attention on the condition of human rights in China.

北京奥运火炬传递惨遭滑铁卢使世界将目光聚焦于中国的人权状况。

Two committees of the House of Representatives were holding hearings on the fiasco this week.

本周，众议院下属的两个委员会将这一失败投资召开听证会。

Still, the worst thing was that I was becoming known for the fiasco and not the book.

不过，最糟糕的事情还是我现在出名了，不是因为我的书，却是因为一次惨痛的失败。

In the debt-ceiling fiasco , Mr Obama’s popularity did not revive, despite the GOP’s display of gross irresponsibility. Why was that?

不信？想想这个。在一塌糊涂的债务上限争论中，尽管共和党表现得极其不负责任，奥巴马的声望仍然没能恢复。为什么会这样？