It was a snafu from beginning to end.
對(duì)話
Dan: That's the last time I go on anything that John organizes.
Ally: What happened?
Dan: He arranged a trip to the races for a group of his friends.
Ally: So?
Dan: The coach had a puncture, so we arrived an hour late, our tickets were for the wrong day and the picnic food was terrible.
Ally: Not an ideal day out.
Dan: It was a snafu from beginning to end.
丹：我以后都不會(huì)再參加約翰籌辦的任何活動(dòng)。
阿利：為什么？
丹：他安排了一群朋友去看賽馬。
阿利：那又怎樣？
丹：我們乘坐的客運(yùn)汽車在路上爆胎，于是遲到了一小時(shí)，而我們?nèi)雸?chǎng)券的日期原來(lái)不是那一天。帶去野餐的食物也難吃極了。
阿利：這可不是很理想的一日游。
丹：簡(jiǎn)直自始至終都一團(tuán)糟。
約翰籌辦活動(dòng)，弄得一團(tuán)糟。他的朋友說(shuō)：It was a snafu。Snafu本是第二次大戰(zhàn)時(shí)美軍俚語(yǔ)，指‘一團(tuán)糟’或‘弄糟了的事’。這個(gè)字其實(shí)是個(gè)頭字詞（acronym），即取幾個(gè)字的第一個(gè)字母而成：Situation Normal: All Fouled Up（情況正常：一切亂七八糟）。以‘亂七八糟’為‘正?！?dāng)然有戲謔意味。Foul（弄臟）up是臟話fuck up的替代說(shuō)法，聽(tīng)起來(lái)‘文雅’一點(diǎn)，和snafu一樣，可作動(dòng)詞，例如：（1）Look, you have fouled up / snafued everything （瞧，你把什么都弄糟了?。?）Our plan was fouled up / snafued by his clumsiness（我們的計(jì)劃，因他處事笨拙而失敗了）。
Snafu、foul-up還可作名詞，例如：（1）You have made a foul-up / snafu of the election campaign（你把競(jìng)選活動(dòng)弄得一團(tuán)糟）。（2）The government’s educational reforms turned out to be a big political foul-up / snafu（政府的教育改革，成為政治上一大敗筆）。
留意今天那段對(duì)話阿利說(shuō)的So？。So作連接詞，常用來(lái)帶出一段話的下文，例如：So, I missed the plane （就這樣，我趕不上搭飛機(jī)了）。叫人家把故事說(shuō)下去，也常用這個(gè)字，例如："I was late for school this morning." "So?"（‘我今早上學(xué)遲到了?！怯衷鯓?？’）