时间:2019-02-16 作者:英语课 分类:英语单词荟萃


英语课

今天我们要学的词是gaffe 1。 Gaffe, 是失言、失态的意思。"Make a bad gaffe," 就是极为失态。在美国大选过程中,每个候选人都会有失策或是讲错话的时候。"Sometimes minor 2 campaign gaffes 3 can turn out to be deadly for the candidates," 有时竞选中很小的失误也会给候选人带来致命的打击。


美国总统布什不久前在发表电视讲话时,把一个寻求房屋按揭帮助的热线电话的号码念成了一个基督教学校的号码。"Bush's verbal gaffe inundated 4 the small school with numerous phone calls," 布什的口误害得这个学校的电话被打爆。好的,今天我们学习的词是gaffe...


 


 



n.(社交上令人不快的)失言,失态
  • I had no idea of the gaffe which I was committing.我不清楚我犯了什么错误。
  • 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。
adj.较小(少)的,较次要的;n.辅修学科;vi.辅修
  • The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
  • I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。
n.失礼,出丑( gaffe的名词复数 )
  • The presidential candidate made three mistakes, or gaffes, during his speech. 校长候选人在演讲中出了三次错,或失态。 来自超越目标英语 第4册
  • When the microphones were on, gaffes gushed from his lips. 而当电话响起,他却口无遮拦,屡屡失言。 来自互联网
v.淹没( inundate的过去式和过去分词 );(洪水般地)涌来;充满;给予或交予(太多事物)使难以应付
  • We have been inundated with offers of help. 主动援助多得使我们应接不暇。
  • We have been inundated with every bit of information imaginable. 凡是想得到的各种各样的信息潮水般地向我们涌来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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'umble
advertising divisions
alternation specification
antisterino
argentite
asymmetric meter
axisymmetrise
backus - naur form
base endshield
battery current
Berthelot-Thomsen principle
blader of a ball
Blommenslyst
bow-windows
break-in oil
buffering power of soil
caerulein
cahen
carbon smut
celiothelioma
charybdis sagamiensis
chrome-magnetite
compsofts
compulsory winding up by the court
conductor bundle
congenital generalized fibromatosis
convergence protocol
cosmophil
Cousin John
Defibrin
diffused mesa transistor
dimethylaminocinnamaldehyde
discontinuous phase
discrete information source
disk resident
drying yard
eighty-sixed
enamel
enter wrongly in the ledger
fatherlands
fixed-point representation systems
flexibility of execution
genus Charadrius
go-to-meeting
graduated restrictive aspect
greenish blues
huesing
immersal
isochromatic surface
jallow
janiss
Kentucky bluegrass, Kentucky blue
key-bugle
Kittson County
knight
lauts
levaine
liefsome
lior
living witness
lobby page
longshore current velocity
menorraghia
Nagarote
NFFE
nuffer
Oliver, Jamie
on their knees
orifice spacing
overhanging deck
piloted ignition
Podostemales
port a little!
presacrals
primary stress field
Proetz treatment
programming unit
punch advance
putting up a fight
resistance to oil
rongalite discharge
sanderiana
segment exception condition
server migration
simps
sinding
single cell protein
sink-float separation process
Stainville
steriflame sterillizer
supporting frame
tanja
target disk
testoons
the wooden spoon
transitivities
Tsatsa
unit start-up and commissioning
value of service pricing
venganzas
web-bulb thermometer
wind energy source