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
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acidic oxides
add cells
addin
alcoholic
alisonite
amynthas lini
aorto-coronary arterial saphenous vein bypass grafting
Austrocylindropuntia
autoclave line
basicss
bidding prices
big heel
Billy Wix
blank field descripter
branching line
braulid
broadcast videotex
bursa
campaniles
Chain too slack!
chief engineer's log
compound filter
consignment lot
contact spot
coreroom
curvation
default folder
dilution viscometer
double t account
dreight
epitheliofibril
eruca
family Paguridae
Femur-Wuli
fire-clay brick
fossella
fume extraction
gas suspension fuel
geometric mean inequality
get accounts squared
glass physics
go over to
gorrogh
hazard characteristics
headgates
high line fishery
Hopeton
housing problem
incitory
incumbentesses
inquietance
isogenicity
Jan Christian Smuts
kilner
L D Process
lateral adjustment
laville
Leptung
lickly
light horizontal pendulum
light instrument
login
london action plan
lower coal measures
lucelia
Luoping
marine technological economics
masters-at-arms
mouse antibody production test
mummiforms
Neodielsia
neurotize
notice of readiness tendered and accepted
off job
Ostender
overlying deposit
p-acetamidoazobenzene
p-chlorofluorobenzene
payroll audit
pidonia yushana
piston scraper ring
plasticizing bath
provenzanoes
pyrogenic deposit
radio-release determination
rubrospinal tract
sailing-raft
satellite phenomenon
schadenfreuder
slag trough
sloping wave
stateless capitalism
strophicus
susak
tailhook
that will never do
Tongoloa dunnii
transversional
tyramide
usage-based
Volokonovskiy Rayon