fiasco
单词辨析：
指做某事时未能达成目标，也可指不成功的人或事。
Their action ended in failure.
他们的行动以失败而告终。
She felt she was a failure in the others' eyes.
她觉得在别人眼中自己是个失败的人。
His election campaign was a complete failure.
他的竞选活动完全失败。
多指在与某一方的对抗中所遭遇的失败，如在战争、比赛、竞选等中的失利，也可泛指未能做成某事。
a narrow defeat
惜败
The commander admitted defeat in the battle.
指挥官承认此次战役失败了。
指让人十分难堪或失望的彻底失败。
His first audition was a fiasco.
他第一次试镜彻底失败。
He hoped that the supper his girlfriend made would not be a fiasco.
他希望女朋友做的晚饭不会完全无法下咽。
指不受欢迎的产品、电影、戏剧等。
The flop of the novel discouraged the writer.
小说的失败让作者非常沮丧。
The monotonous dialogue made the film a complete flop.
单调的对白使这部电影一败涂地。
相关例句：
There were a few bugs spotted and fixed, but nothing on the scale of the buzz fiasco.
虽然Google+仍爆出了不少缺陷，随后才得到修复，但与Buzz当时的惨败相比，这些缺陷无关痛痒。
Mr Ricks's acclaimed previous book," Fiasco", chronicled America's march towards perdition in Iraq.
瑞克斯大受好评的前作《大败局》记录了美国在伊拉克走向毁灭的历程；
It was a bit of a fiasco.
这败得有点惨。
Cheer up! Boys and girls, a failure is not a fiasco.
振作起来，小伙子和姑娘们，一次失败并不是彻底的失败。
We don't want a rerun of monday's fiasco.
我们可别让星期一的惨败重演。
The blame for the Charleston fiasco did not lie with him
查尔斯顿惨败错不在他。