今天我們要學的詞是 debacle.

debacle 的意思是崩潰，一敗涂地。 The Iowa caucuses, the first test of Democratic Party presidential candidates, had an embarrassing debacle as officials blamed state party and technological problems for not being able to provide results hours after the voting ended. 愛奧華州的黨內初選是對民主黨總統參選人的首次考驗，但隨著投票結束數小時后仍無法得出結果而陷入令人尷尬的失敗局面，官員們將其歸咎于該州的民主黨和技術故障。

The Latin American region reported little to no growth last year leading some economists to wonder what led to the area's economic debacle. 拉丁美洲地區報告去年幾乎沒有經濟增長，一些經濟學家想了解是什么導致了該地區的經濟崩潰。