debacle
debacle 英 [deɪˈbɑ:kl] 美 [dɪˈbɑkəl,-ˈbækəl]
n. 崩溃；灾害；解冻
名词复数:debacles
- Use debacle to refer to a fiasco, disaster, or great failure. If several dogs run onto the field during the big baseball game, tripping players and chewing up the bases, you can call the whole event a debacle.
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- n. 崩溃；灾害；解冻
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1. This debacle has prompted a probe of the bank by the US House, and the US and Europe remain at odds over how to select a new bank chief.
这种崩溃引起美国众议院对该行进行调查，而且美国欧洲在如何选择新的世行行长问题上意见仍然存在分歧。
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2. After all, sitting and waiting is how we made money from the subprime debacle.
毕竟，我们如何从次贷崩溃赚钱就是坐着等待。
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3. It’s also what we ourselves did after the savings and loan debacle of the Reagan years.
在里根执政期间，面对储蓄和贷款崩溃的时候，我们自己也用过。
- debacle (n.) "disaster," 1848, from French débâcle "downfall, collapse, disaster" (17c.), a figurative use, literally "breaking up (of ice on a river)," extended to the violent flood that follows when the river ice melts in spring; from débâcler "to free," from Middle French desbacler "to unbar," from des- "off" + bacler "to bar," from Vulgar Latin *bacculare, from Latin baculum "stick" (see bacillus). Sense of "disaster" was present in French before English borrowed the word.
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