It was a snafu from beginning to end.
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：我以后都不會再參加約翰籌辦的任何活動。
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：我們乘坐的客運汽車在路上爆胎，于是遲到了一小時，而我們?nèi)雸鋈娜掌谠瓉聿皇悄且惶臁ヒ安偷氖澄镆搽y吃極了。
阿利：這可不是很理想的一日游。
丹：簡直自始至終都一團糟。
約翰籌辦活動，弄得一團糟。他的朋友說：It was a snafu。Snafu本是第二次大戰(zhàn)時美軍俚語，指‘一團糟’或‘弄糟了的事’。這個字其實是個頭字詞（acronym），即取幾個字的第一個字母而成：Situation Normal: All Fouled Up（情況正常：一切亂七八糟）。以‘亂七八糟’為‘正?！斎挥袘蛑o意味。Foul（弄臟）up是臟話fuck up的替代說法，聽起來‘文雅’一點，和snafu一樣，可作動詞，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（你把競選活動弄得一團糟）。（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）。
留意今天那段對話阿利說的So？。So作連接詞，常用來帶出一段話的下文，例如：So, I missed the plane （就這樣，我趕不上搭飛機了）。叫人家把故事說下去，也常用這個字，例如："I was late for school this morning." "So?"（‘我今早上學遲到了。’‘那又怎樣？’）
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：我以后都不會再參加約翰籌辦的任何活動。
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：我們乘坐的客運汽車在路上爆胎，于是遲到了一小時，而我們?nèi)雸鋈娜掌谠瓉聿皇悄且惶臁ヒ安偷氖澄镆搽y吃極了。
阿利：這可不是很理想的一日游。
丹：簡直自始至終都一團糟。
約翰籌辦活動，弄得一團糟。他的朋友說：It was a snafu。Snafu本是第二次大戰(zhàn)時美軍俚語，指‘一團糟’或‘弄糟了的事’。這個字其實是個頭字詞（acronym），即取幾個字的第一個字母而成：Situation Normal: All Fouled Up（情況正常：一切亂七八糟）。以‘亂七八糟’為‘正?！斎挥袘蛑o意味。Foul（弄臟）up是臟話fuck up的替代說法，聽起來‘文雅’一點，和snafu一樣，可作動詞，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（你把競選活動弄得一團糟）。（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）。
留意今天那段對話阿利說的So？。So作連接詞，常用來帶出一段話的下文，例如：So, I missed the plane （就這樣，我趕不上搭飛機了）。叫人家把故事說下去，也常用這個字，例如："I was late for school this morning." "So?"（‘我今早上學遲到了。’‘那又怎樣？’）