fiasco

衆院千葉７区補選に関する記事からの抜粋。


Sunday's win in the House of Representatives by-election will be just the tonic for the Democratic Party of Japan as it prepares to take on the Liberal Demacratic Party in the current Diet session after being knocked off-stride in the wake of a humilliating e-mail fiasco.

fiasco = [C,U] something that is completely unsuccessful, in a way that is very embarrasing or disappointing

（計画などの）大失敗


例文：

○ The new mall has been an economic fiasco.

○ The party was a complete fiasco.

○ What a fiasco!

○ end in a fiasco
（大失敗に終わる）

○ Full responsibility for the fiasco lies with the PR department.



記事関連語句・表現：



衆院千葉７区補選

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The House of Representative by-election for Chiba Constituency No.7

constituency = [C] (in Britain) a district that elects its own representative to parliament



民主党からの立候補者 大田和美

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Kazumi Ota, the DPJ's candidate



彼女は衆院千葉７区補選で当選した。

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She won the House of Representative by-election for Chiba Constituency No.7



偽メール問題

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the bogus e-mail scandal



偽メール問題での大失態（大失敗）

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the bogus e-mail fiasco.


With Ota's victory, the DPJ showed signs of recovering from the humilliating bogus e-mail scandal that froced former DPJ leader Seiji Maehara to step down.