gaffe

gaffe音标

英 [gæf]

美 [ɡæf]

gaffe基本释义

n.过失；失态；出丑；失言

gaffe用法及例句

n.(名词)

失态，失礼，出丑

过失

失言，不慎的言行

加夫（音译名）

gaffe在线翻译

noun

1. a socially awkward or tactless act

Synonym: faux passolecismslipgaucherie

1. 失态；失礼A gaffe isa stupid or careless mistake, for example when you say or do something that offends or upsets people.

e.g. He made an embarrassing gaffe at the convention last weekend.他在上周末的会议上出了洋相，狼狈不堪。e.g. ...social gaffes committed by high-ranking individuals.高层人士在社交场合的一些失态行为

2. 泄露秘密；走漏消息If you blow the gaffe or blow the gaff, you tell someone something that other people wanted you to keep secret.

1. 过失：gaff-topsail 顶帆 | gaffe 过失 | gaffer 老人

2. gaffe的近义词

2. 失礼：gad 游荡 | gaffe 失礼 | gag reflex 咽反射

3. 出丑：gaff-topsail 顶帆 | gaffe 出丑 | gaffemalpractice 失态

I had obviously said the wrong thing, committed a gaffe.

出自：Blackwood's Magazine

He gave her a piece of jewellery, and by a clerical gaffe the bill went to his wife.

出自：C. P. Snow

近义词

临近词

slip滑倒

error错误

blunder大错

solecism语法错误

bloomer 正在开花的植物...

clanger过失

mistake错误

gaucherie笨拙

boo-boo愚蠢的错误

howler嚎叫的人或动物...

blooper 过失

faux pas失礼

Gafo

GA

相关列句

"You know what I mean" is considered the biggest verbal gaffe by 15% of the population.(15%的民众认为“你知道我的意思”是*大的言语过失。)

Turns out we committed an awful gaffe yesterday.(看起来我们昨天出了个大丑。)

One user jokingly suggested that the gaffe was actually an attempt to cram more racial backgrounds into a single image.(其中一名用户开玩笑地说道，这个过失实际上是一种尝试，试着把更多的种族背景塞进一张图片中。)

A mild secular analog, he says, might be an executive who commits a horrific social gaffe at the instant of a crucial promotion.(一种温和的世俗分析认为，这也许像一个公司高层在经历了突然的提升之后开始有了一种心理上的失衡。)

For the GOP, he's more like the gaffe that keeps on goofing.(对大佬*来说，他更像一个不断出现过失的傻子。)

His gaffe has gone viral on the Internet.(他失态的场景已在网上疯传。)

Following the embarrassing Christmas Day gaffe, several senior editorial staff was suspended.(在圣诞节出丑之后，几个主要的编辑被停职。)

The excursion had in his eyes been a monstrous gaffe , a breach of sensibility and good taste&b{Mary McCarthy.(那次谈话中的离题在他看来太出丑了，简直就是失去理智后的胡言乱语，毫无高尚趣味可言（玛丽麦卡锡）)

MSNBC's Chris Matthews pointed out - as News Night's senior producer Jim Harper does in the episode - that this gaffe was, above all, a missed opportunity.(微软全国广播公司节目主持人克里斯·马修斯指出——就如同在《新闻编辑室》中，《新闻之夜》的高级制片人吉姆·哈珀说的那样——这是一次过失，*重要的是错失了良机。)

History indicates that a bad performance, particularly a telling gaffe, can badly damage a candidate in the polls.(历史表明，如果候选人表现不佳，特别是失言之举，会使他们在大选中严重受损。)