faux pas

faux pas怎么读

英式音标：[ˌfəʊ ˈpɑ:]

美式音标：[ˌfoʊ ˈpɑ]

faux pas的意思释义

n.

失礼，失言；

变形

复数：faux pas

英英释义

n.a socially awkward or tactless act

同义词：gaffesolecismslipgaucherie

faux pas用法及例句

双语例句

Howerer, it turned out to be a faux pas, as Mother made me return the dress.

然而，母亲要我把衣服退回，变成一件很失礼的事情。

Another communication faux pas is transferring a customer from one telephone extension to another.

另一个沟通失礼是把顾客从一个电话传到另一个电话。

例句参考

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faux pas相关例句

1. It was not long before I realized the enormity of my faux pas.

没过多久我就发现了我有多么的失礼。

2. In a competitive job market, employers have the luxury of choice, and even a minor faux pas can hurt your chances.

在竞争激烈的就业市场上，雇主们拥有众多选择，微小的失礼也可能毁掉你的机会。

3. Hiring a PR firm can be well worth the expense, but even then a nasty faux pas can occur.

雇佣一所公共关系事务所物有所值，然而即使这样做了，也有可能出现严重的失言。

4. It occurred to me that the slightest slip of the tongue, the smallest mistake, even a social faux pas can alter our self critical selves momentarily or forever!

依我所见，我们谈吐时的半点闪失，较微小的错误，哪怕是一次社交失仪都会在一瞬间甚至永远改变我们对自身的看法！

5. There\'s social faux pas around the molestation of children.

这种社会性的失礼，是对小孩子的骚扰。

6. What is the greatest fashion faux pas?

在时尚界，较丢脸的事是什么？

7. Worse, any seating faux pas will be instantly broadcast by the pack of journalists and photographers whose beat is the choreography of the front row.

还有更糟糕的。在安排座位上的任何失礼都会马上被记者和摄影师们快速地传出去，他们的抢先报道可是很有影响力的。

8. One of the clumsier faux pas is when a customer fails to inform the master in advance of dislikes or allergies.

另外，有一种更笨拙的失误行径，就是顾客没事前告知寿司师傅他不喜欢什么或者对什么有过敏反应。

9. The slightest faux pas will be derided.

较细微的过错都将遭到嘲弄。

10. Meanwhile, in an unfortunate red carpet faux pas, Pink and Shakira both showed up in the same Balmain dress.

与此同时，红毯上出现了一个不幸的窘境，粉红佳人和夏奇拉穿著相同的巴尔曼礼服现身。

11. For some this is a linguistic faux pas, but what about psychologically? Does it make any difference whether what you say is couched in \'thinking\' or \'feeling\' terms?

现如今的人习惯把“我认为”跟“我觉得”混着用，这或许不过是语言学上的小纰漏，但如果从心理学的层面探讨，说“认为”或“觉得”是不是会有些隐含的分别呢？

12. Don\'t commit major faux-pas like asking how long lunch break is or when you can start taking vacations.

不要问一些严重失礼的问题，如询问午休多长时间，何时能开始度假。

13. Some people raised their hands to admit that they had committed many of the character\'s social faux pas themselves.

有些人举手承认他们也曾有过男主角所犯的许多社交失态。

14. The classic fashion faux pas \"don\'t wear white after labor day\" is slowly but surely becoming extinct, so don\'t listen to your grandmother when she reprimands you for doing so.

经典的时尚箴言曾妄言说“工作一天后不要穿白色”，但现在这种说法正在慢慢消失。

15. But he and some of his colleagues-clearly fearful of committing a legal faux pas-often seemed evasive.

但他和他那些显然害怕因失言而造成以后法律上面另被动的同事们的态度却似乎总是有些躲躲闪闪。

16. She added, rather controversially, that red hair was a dating faux pas too. She revealed, \'The only men who like redheads are Irish.\'

她还说——这一点颇有争议——红头发也是约会大忌。她透露说，“只有爱尔兰男人才会喜欢红头发女人。”

17. or Elaine\'s countless work faux-pas.

或是伊莱恩的工作糗事。

18. Facebook faux pas include drunken photographs, bad language, and messages complaining about worklife.

Facebook资料中的败笔，包括醉酒照片，脏话，对工作生活和邮件抱怨。

19. Fashion designer Coco Chanel had a personal rule: Before she left the house, the style icon always removed one piece of her ensemble to avoid the faux-pas of wearing too many accessories.

时尚设计师CocoChanel有一条个人法则：每次离家外出时，这位时尚代表人物总会去掉一件饰品，以免犯穿戴过多饰品的尴尬错误。

20. If you\'re one of those new users, you may be baffled by Twitter\'s peculiar culture, or nervous that you\'ll commit some kind of microblogging faux pas.

作为新手的你，可能会因Twitter的独特文化而颇感困惑，或者因害怕触犯某些礼节而紧张不已。

21. However, it turned out to be a faux pas, as Mother made me return the dress.

然而，结果是母亲要我把衣服退回，真是一件很失礼的事情。

22. Third, whereas refusing to help may constitute a social faux pas, agreeing to help at a future and more opportune time for the helper is appropriate.

再次，鉴于拒绝提供帮助可能会导致失礼，这时候允诺在未来或者一个更合适的时间点再提供帮助则比较妥当。

23. By being perceptive, engaged, and willing to learn, you can make a great impression and sidestep these hard-to-recover-from faux pas.

通过敏锐的观察、勤快工作、乐于学习，你就能给别人留下一个很好的印象，从而避开这些难以弥补的错误。

24. So much so, in fact, that one Japanese fast food chain found that sales were flagging because women had been avoiding the cultural faux pas of showing their open mouths in public.

事实上，由于日本女性会避免在公共场合狼吞虎咽的失态表现，日本的一家快餐连锁店发现他们的销售量一直在下滑。

25. What are the worse fashion faux pas in your career?

在过去的工作中较差的造型是什么？

26. It\'s the most common partner faux pas but that doesn\'t make it any less painful for the partner forced to smile as their other half demonstrates how twerking should really be done.

这是较常见的伴侣失态事件，但更令人难堪的是，在你的另一半喝醉酒展示如何跳电臀舞时，你还要强挤出微笑。

27. Stealing the newlyweds\' thunder is considered a terrible faux pas.

在新婚夫妇婚礼上抢风头是极度失礼的。

28. Stealing the newlyweds\' thunder is considered a terrible faux pas.

在新婚夫妇婚礼上抢风头是极度失礼的。

29.We consider it very impolite to tell people when they have committed some social faux pas.

我们认为当他人失礼时，告诉他这些是很不礼貌的。

32.make a mistake; commit a faux-pas.

菲律宾首都遭洪水袭击，已造成17人死亡。

35.His supervisor still gave him a promotion despite his faux pas at the meeting.

（尽管他开会时犯错，他上司仍然给他升级。

37.The reporter can blame a poor phone connection for our own pigskin faux pas.

记者大可把我们所犯的错误，归咎为电话通讯不良。

38.they feared some undetected trace of poison; she looked around to be sure her faux pas was undetected

他们担心一些未被识破的投*痕迹；她看了看四周以确定她失礼的舞步未被发现。

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