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
a-pinacoid
across corner view
additional operating funds
after midnight
agrophytocoenosium
Almaceda
antenna aperture area
aurochs
automatic digital radio direction finder
be on one's guard
biodiversity,bio-diversity
butylidene-
chahine relaxation method
Combipres
complex transformation ratio
contour lines
copper(i) cholride
core-driver
counterposition
crossed axial plane dispersion
crumpton
customer experience team
cut up test
D-Ribulokinase
deprecated
destructible
diandry
dietze
different time observation
dinemasporium strigosum
dip stick (stock)
dubber
engagement or employment
entitlement-conferring
extra-spectrum colo(u)r
flat pick
free scrip issue
from point to point
frontier-mining
fuel experimental station
GDCH
Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
gluier
glutamate-transpeptidase
golden sections
grinchily
haywirer
hirsberg
hornwrack
hyacintin
hybrid multiplexer
ideological differences
imipranil
inaugurals
isalllotherm
iseults
isotropic laminate
Jennilyn
l'art
lay weight upon
lipin, lipine
malloprenol
Methopyrapone
microassays
Microtropis
munies
museumplein
nipple roll
oil pressure relief valve spring
Paninskaya
phosphorylates
polycambial
prairie orchids
precision differential manometer
quillity
rami vestibulares
rappel
reflection at critical angle
sacro-coccygeal
saturation storage time
scanheads
sclerogen
simplified profile
sodium indium alum
Sop'anjang
spiral wire inserts
state-specific
stenchaetothrips karnyianus
Stephen of Perm, Saint
stormatical
strata cutaneum membranae tympani
submetallic lustre
trombavar
two sided waxing
type printing telegraph
u-shape
unisokinetic sampling
uranium reactor
Veselo-Voznesenka
voluntary export restriction
wave indicator
weibull wind-speed distribution