啊哈，this is a typic chinese word,maybe i couldn't explain cleary in english for my english is poor,or you can tell me if anything wrong in my english if you will ,thanks you 杯具，是一个非常典型的有中国特色的论坛语言，意思是悲剧，因为在中文里，悲剧和杯具同音，就用杯具来指代悲剧，反义词就是洗具（喜剧），有个特别的句子，人生就是一个茶几，上面摆满了杯具和洗具。杯具，就是杯子之类的东西，统称杯具，洗具，就是用来洗漱的用具，统称杯具，比如说牙刷、刷牙的杯子，都属于洗具，而这些东西，可以摆在桌子上，所以，就有了上面的那句话。这些句子，是中国网民自娱自乐的典型，也表达了我们乐观的精神，很有意思。 杯具,for a typic chinese BBS words,it means tragedy,but not so deeply,when someone want to say something is made him sad ,he will use it,for in chinese,杯具Is the same pronunciation with 悲剧，so ,we use 杯具 to instead悲剧，its antonym is comedy,we say 洗具（喜剧） OH，i am sorry ,i want to try my best to explain it ,but i have to leave now,i hope you can understand my explains in chinese

如果是单纯意义上的解释，这就是杯子的意思，如果这个是网络语，其实（杯具=悲剧）表示很惨，网络上一般用于表达自己的情感或者看法，一般是对坏的事情的表达

是悲剧的谐音，中国的汉语和汉字有很多种意思，要想彻底理解对于外国人来说，还真是很难的，而且会出现很多网络特定用词等，

a tragedy

means sad things it is a word is using for having fun just like 886 meas bye