Meet One's Waterloo—— 一敗塗地

** be finally, decisively, or permanently defeated（最終，決定性，或永久被擊敗）// suffer a severe or crushing defeat, disaster or setback（遭受嚴重或粉碎性失敗、災難或挫折。）

~~ 一敗塗地；遭到慘敗；遭遇慘敗；嚴重挫敗；慘遭失敗；巨大失敗；大敗；慘敗；完蛋

~~ get one’s comeuppance （得到應得的懲罰、指責或報應） // meet one’s nemesis （遇到剋星）

be beaten utterly // be defeated completely // be conquered decisively // lose out all

!! The French Emperor Napoleon was exiled to Elba island after his forced abdication following the Treaty of Fontainebleau (1814). He escaped in February of 1815, and mustered 198,000 men to fight against 215,000 men armies of English, Dutch, Belgian, Prussian, and Austrian allies. Napoleon was defeated and imprisoned on the island of St. Helena, where he died in 1821. “Meet one’s Waterloo” alludes to the final defeat of Napoleon’s French army at the “Battle of Waterloo.”

（根據一八一四年《楓丹白露》條約，法國皇帝拿破崙被迫退位後，被流放到厄爾巴島。他於一八一五年二月逃脫，召集了十九萬八千名士兵與英國、荷蘭、比利時、普魯士和奧地利盟軍的二十一萬五千名士兵戰鬥。拿破崙被擊敗後被囚禁在聖赫勒拿島上，並在一八二一年去世。“遇到一個人的滑鐵盧”暗示拿破崙的法國軍隊在“滑鐵盧戰役”中被最終擊敗。）

>> The dictator had boasted that no one could beat him but he met his Waterloo when the people’s uprising defeated him.

（這位獨裁者誇口說沒有人能擊敗他，但當人民起義時，他便一敗塗地。）

>> Mr. Rabbit says to Mr. Turtle, “If we have another running race, I will surely win and you will meet your Waterloo. ”

（兔子先生對烏龜先生說：“如果我們再來一場跑步比賽，我一定會贏，你將會遭到慘敗。）

學勤進修教育中心英語專科導師

李啟文　　教授