debacle

英 [d??bɑ?k?l] 美[d??bɑk?l]

英英釋義實(shí)用場(chǎng)景例句

n. 崩潰；災(zāi)害；解凍

TEM8GRE低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯

詞態(tài)變化

復(fù)數(shù):?debacles;

助記提示

1. de- + -bacle "to bar" => debacle "unbar, free".
2. bacillus, bacteria => Latin baculum "stick" => debacle.
3. "downfall, collapse, disaster", 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.
4. 諧音“堤壩垮了”。

中文詞源

debacle 崩潰

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。

英文詞源

débacle: débacle: [19] A débacle is etymologically an ‘a(chǎn)ct 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.