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
accuracies
acoustic surface-wave measurements
adrenomimetic
After a storm comes a calm.
All hallow
alloch(e)iria
altruistic love
batting
biomechanical
bruininks
caesio teres
Chikan
Chisopa
cinnamal
clode
Coalport
Cocos Island
conduit xize
conjunctive phrase
consumer is the king
conveyer scale
coordinate transformation device
corrinoid
cortical pyramid
cpmas
crossed cylinder
crura posterius capsulae internae
ctenophores
daffadowndilly
diktats
direct current amplification factor
dissecting forecps
engage in malpractices
explosive breathing
fever-reducings
fine roving frame
fire compartment
fixed-term
food-safe
forestage
gabcikovo
ganado
giddy up!
going out for
good rinsibility
Harmsworth, Alfred Charles William
hazel coppice
helminthe
horizontal blade strut
Householder method
impact angle
Imret
inhibitabilities
intercoiling
ketoketene
knuckss
large indian civet
Lessing ring
Lo N
magnificative
make sunset
modified Auger parameter
multi beam interferometer
N-PARAFFIN
natural gas reforming
nightlife
Northern Darfur State
offhanded
oil spill recovery vessel
out-wall
peripheral stimulation
Planta pedis
podran
polynomial modulation
Post-Zionist
Pugwash Junction
retinaculum extensorum
rijkeboerite (bariomicrolite)
ruckly
San Miguel Sola de Vega
sandwichable
scurviest
share quotation
shortened code
singnalling speed
slaughterdom
sliding slot linkage
solid state electrolyte
somerset house
Songjeon
stacked array
staff objective
straw line
strip-cropping
Talisei, Pulau
third stage of labo(u)r
through-the lens finder
transverse neutral axis
uncinula clintonii peck
xinxiang
yarmuks