debacle

• n. 崩潰；災害；解凍

de-, 不，非，使相反。 -bacle, 桿，棍，支撐，詞源同 bachelor, bacteria.即移除支撐，引申義崩潰。

débacle

débacle: [19] A débacle is etymologically an ‘act of unbarring’, the notion behind it being that once a restraining bar is removed, a rush of disasters follows. It was borrowed at the start of the 19th century (originally in the technical geological sense of a ‘sudden violent surge of water in a river’) from French, where it was a derivative of débacler, a verb formed from dé- ‘de-, un-’ and bacler ‘bar’. This was acquired from Proven?al baclar ‘bar a door’, which came from medieval Latin *bacculāre, a derivative of Latin bacculus ‘stick’ (responsible also for English bacillus and bacterium).
=> bacillus, bacterium

debacle (n.)

"disaster," 1848, from French débacle "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 débacler "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.

1. Many men were shot or captured in the debacle.

敗軍在潰逃時有很多人被擊斃或俘虜.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. The Argentine debacle has important lessons to teach.

阿根廷的崩潰提供了重要的教訓.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. After the debacle of the war the world was never the same again.

經歷了這場戰爭的慘敗之后，世界再也不是原來的那個樣子了。

來自柯林斯例句

4. His first performance was a debacle : the audience booed him off the stage.

他的首場演出 一敗涂地,觀眾發出噓聲把他轟下了臺.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. The convention was a debacle.

這次大會開得非常失敗。

來自辭典例句