flop
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：
The movie may have been a flop at the box office.
那部电影的票房也许是个败笔。
A: The whole play is a flop.
整个剧是个失败。
If the show doesn't flop in the first week, we'll be ok.
如果表演在第一周不失败，我们就万事大吉了。
Without a break I will flop.
不休息一下我会倒地不起。
What should I do if I go on a date, and early on it's clear the evening is going to be a huge flop?
我应该怎么做，如果我去的约会显然将是一个巨大的失败？
So will 3D TV flop in China, or is it just crazy enough to work?
那么，3D电视在中国是会失败，还是会受到热捧而大获成功？