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》
学英语单词
4-amino-triazole
A.C. circuit breaker
accidental death insurance
acoustic tubercle
agent-based system
aggregate production planning
airline pilot association (alpa)
amount of runway visibility
anti-marketeer
Asherman syndrome
atlanto-axial
base product
bifurcation involvement
Bitis nasicornis
bring word to
build up welding
C Corporation
captain's quarters
cargo unprepared
ciro
color matching guide
complexing agent
conus legatus
cycloid gear grinder
Depo-Medrol
depreciation reserve buildings
dyer's chamomile
error checking arrangement
explosive pressing
Fire Barrier Wall
Fraser, Malcolm
fund for development research
geayi
in-yourface
industrial models
inkily
intermediate tank
jet vane
jocularities
jumping out at
Khara-Aldan
larkman
Lift(Face)
lings
lispocephala flavibasis
logomachists
LOLer
man month
market behavior
marshalate
McCrudden method
mode-suppression diaphragm
morceaux
musery
native sulphurs
net-pen cage fish culture
nitric acid ester
Nureyev
out tuning
outdances
personal trainings
plated through-board
pneumatic drop
potassium antimonyl tartrate
Pradales
pu'
qiora
quality control division
realizationally
red-billed gull
retinal damage
rostrolateral compartment
roundhouse
salpausselk? subglacial stage
saxifragous
Schreger
self-essence
send a player off
snap hand jet
soly
ST_the-earth-and-outer-space_areas-of-land-in-general
supergovernments
swivel loader
tailings road
thermopolymerization
traveling bags
tubular anemometer
tunemeister
under the auspices of
unit control block
unmorally
variable-ratio
veprecula vacillata
Wakuya
Wemyss Bay
wet reeling
wheatgrass
Wiesen
window conditioner
zip across the horizon
zodiacal cone
zoning map