时间:2019-02-07 作者:英语课 分类:英语每日一词


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》
学英语单词
a fair crack of the whip
afoot
air-suspension system
Allhallowmas(s)
attribute error
austemper stressing
Ayttrium
Beauty is but skin deep.
bilinear transformation
Braille printing machine
Ceropegia trichantha
Cicadella vridis
cisplatin
coarse carpenter file
colpocysto-ureterotomy
colthood
comportements
concomitant sensation
corpuses
custom memory
Dao, Nusa
decisionism
dehydration temperaturre
dejectant
demeo
departmental plan
dial-a-porn, Dial-A-Porn
discoed
distance of visible horizon
encephalotrigeminal vascular syndrome
eperythrozoon wenyoni
exhaust oneself
extensible compiler
factory timber industrial lumber
FAX-out
filtration device
flat roof skylight
flex tester
forecasting market demand
foreign-flag ship
frequent hoeing
gazebo
generalized two-phase model
graph algorithm and software package
ground chamotte
ground loops
hot favorite
initial core charge
ionizing cataract
laicise
listers
lobefin
long - term plan
low-pay
lowminded
magnetic cleaning
magnetic inclination
mast table
mcnally tube
measurement matrix
minasgeraisite- (y)
mono peak
monsanto
more widely
movable axie
Omphalogramma vinciflorum
outhunted
particle density
partied-out
pelike
pooled sample proportion
posterodorsally
potassium zirconium sulfate
pseudomelia paraesthetica
re assimilation
real-time incremental computer
relational realism
repetition survey of existing rail-way
right of consortium
russula sanguinea
second tier customers
Shūl, Rūd-e
Sibelius, Jean Julius Christian
site of nuclear power plant
smartcards
spiral bacteria
spud
squint in myogenic paralysis
synethogametism
thrips florum
to conceal
transcendentalises
transurethral resection of the prostate
triiodinated
trombe
tutoris optio
Verkhnyaya Kochëma
water-cooled brake
wind dew
wire distribution cabinet
workmap
z-mails