名詞 fizzle:

1. a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)
   同義詞：hiss, hissing, hushing, sibilation
2. a complete failure
   同義詞：flop, bust

動(dòng)詞 fizzle:

1. end weakly
   同義詞：taper off, peter out, fizzle out

1. After a promising start, the project soon fizzled out.
   這項(xiàng)計(jì)畫開始時(shí)很有希望，但不久就失敗了。

fiz.zle

v.intr.（不及物動(dòng)詞）
fiz.zled,fiz.zling,fiz.zles
To make a hissing or sputtering sound.
發(fā)嘶嘶聲或爆裂聲
Informal To fail or end weakly, especially after a hopeful beginning.
【非正式用語】 失敗，夭折：尤指開始時(shí)很有希望但最終失敗或結(jié)局不好
n.Informal （名詞）【非正式用語】
A failure; a fiasco.
失??；慘敗

來源：
Probably from obsolete fist [to break wind]
可能源自 廢語 fist [放屁]
from Middle English fisten * see pezd-
源自 中古英語 fisten *參見 pezd-

<注釋>In Philemon Holland`s '0 translation of Pliny`sNatural History, we are surprised by the use of the wordfizzle in the statement that if asses eat a certain plant,.they will fall a fizling and farting.. Fizzle was first used in English to mean,in the decorous parlance of theOxford English Dictionary, .to break wind without noise.. During the 9th centuryfizzle took on a related but more respectable sense, .to hiss, as does a piece of fireworks,.illustrated by a quotation from the November 7, 88, issue of theLondon Daily News: .unambitious rockets which fizzle doggedly downwards..In the same centuryfizzle also took on figurative senses, one of which seems to have been popular at Yale.TheYale Literary Magazine for 849 helpfully defines the word as follows: .Fizzle, to rise with modest reluctance, to hesitate often, to decline finally; generally, to misunderstand the question..The figurative sense offizzle that has caught on is the one with which we are most familiar today, .to fail or die out..
在腓利門荷蘭'0年對(duì)普林尼的博物志 中， 我們對(duì)fizzle 一詞的用法感到很驚訝， 它說如果驢吃了某種植物，.他們就會(huì)放屁。. Fizzle 首先在英語中指.無聲地放屁，.是在牛津英語字典 的高雅用語中出現(xiàn)的。 在9世紀(jì)，fizzle 有了一個(gè)相關(guān)的但更文雅的含義， .發(fā)嘶嘶聲，如同煙火那樣，.這個(gè)詞義是通過88年月7日的倫敦每日新聞 的引文說明的： .抱負(fù)不大的火箭，它們頑固地嘶嘶下墜。.同一世紀(jì)，fizzle 還賦與了比喻義， 其中的一個(gè)比喻義似乎在耶魯大學(xué)很流行。849年的耶魯文學(xué)雜志 給這個(gè)詞下了一個(gè)有益的定義： .Fizzle， 不十分情愿地上升，常猶豫不決，最終放棄； 通常是弄錯(cuò)問題。.人們已接受的fizzle 的比喻義， 即今天我們最為熟悉的.失敗或消失.