YOU SAID:
the great American eclipse appears to be a bust.
INTO JAPANESE
アメリカの大食は失敗に終わったようです。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
America's gluttony seems to have failed.
INTO JAPANESE
アメリカの大食いは失敗したようだ。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
America's gluttony seems to have failed.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.