debacles
英 [deɪˈbɑːklz]
美 [deɪˈbɑkəlz]
n. 大败; 崩溃; 垮台; 灾祸
debacle的复数
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 彻底的失败;惨败
A debacle is an event or attempt that is a complete failure.- After the debacle of the war the world was never the same again...
经历了这场战争的惨败之后，世界再也不是原来的那个样子了。 - The convention was a debacle.
这次大会开得非常失败。
- After the debacle of the war the world was never the same again...
in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 débâcle
双语例句
- While these technological changes have empowered people, liberated lives, created stock market miracles and debacles, they have only touched a fraction of the world's poor.
正当技术进步产生了更有能力的人群，解放了生活，创造了股市的奇迹或股市的崩溃的时候，它们只涉及到世界穷人的一小部分。 - As recent debacles at Barclays, HSBC and now Standard Chartered demonstrate, employees of big global banks increasingly lack a moral compass.
近期巴克莱银行（barclays）、汇丰银行（hsbc）以及渣打爆出的一系列丑闻表明，大型跨国银行的员工越来越缺乏道德方向感。 - Some of the debacles of our diplomatic history have been perpetrated by Presidents who fancied themselves negotiators.
我们外交史上某些灾难就是由一些把自己幻想成谈判家的总统造成的。