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. C. P. S.
all-too
alluvial brown soil
angiomyoneuroma
asazol
Atensine
auto sheet
Ban Pak Khlong
battle royale
bay ridge
beach boys
bencivenga
bilge diagonal
Blastoten
Cagnes
category of catalog
chaenomeless
chart folio
coppersmith shop
cut per tooth
Dendrocnide kotoensis
deracemizing
displacement shock response spectrum
diswere
do something by ear
end distortion
energy watchdog
engineering seismic survey
episyrphus graptus
evictions
external indicators
fadedly
fiddlecase
filing drawings
fluid interchange
forging crack
free-electron laser
Gay-Lussac tower
gon grade
holding of document
hornblende granite
husayns
hymenopode
immersionism
insulation brakdown
intention of parliament statute
irradiative
key wall
Kluang
lacunula
line one's purse
linguae francae
manu-tract
memory of a goldfish
Miltou
mirror configuration
MSAE
musculi buccopharyngeus
nitrosodiethylaniline
notch gun
nozzle vane
Nyssa sinensis
omphalic
oopen sea
organic resist
palladium(ii) cyanide
Paris dulongensis
perfluorobutane
pirate perch
plum-pie
polyparies
posterodorsal angle
preforming groove
Pregradnaya
premunize
prix-fixest
pseudoconsultative
push rod seal
reflected energy
satellite tracking camera
scumlike
Seaborg, Glenn Theodore
segment reference string
sign board
skew propeller
skull fin cartilage
small airway disease
soft-centred
steamer fiddle
stone-pine
subprogramme
the latest news
thin-film infrared detector
transition network
trapa bicornis osbeck
upright pump
usel
voltage regulation coefficient
whis.
wildth
Xite
zarafshan