Debacle

debacle







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n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    災害

          2.    瓦解;崩潰

          3.    狂流





The Columbia Guide to Standard American English



debacle (n.) 

   

means“a great defeat, a disaster, a breakup or collapse,”as in Their last loss was such a debacle that it cost the coach his job. 



The main problem with this word borrowed from French is how to say it: di-BAHK-uhl is perhaps most common, but various combinations of dee-, di-, and duh- for the first syllable, with BAHK or BAK for the second, plus a reasonable approximation of the original syllabic French l, such as dai-BAHK-l, are all appropriate. 





see pratfall