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》
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active/inactive flag
Alvin Ailey
antidrom-
automatic reverse pitch
Bacillus septicus
base-soluble
Bay of Campeche
beacon fires
beefwood extract
betongue
blanched
Bornos
breeding for single low content in rapeseed
carboalumination
cash-cards
center stage
citals
cloud stone
coeliothel
concurrent authority
condition percent
correlated sample
crystal-control transmitter
cycle helmet
cymbiola vespertilio
digenomous tetraploid
discrete time signal
double court
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eddy-current nondestructive evaluation
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Festuca arundinacea
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flowering quinces
fundamental loss
genus scardiniuss
get on board
greener
gynandromorphy
hen feather strung black
horrisonous
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Hārūn, Jab.
Ichthammolum
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interblock estimation
it's drizzling
Japhethic
juncoes
kilovolt meter
koller
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martensite finish temperature
metadurite
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NAPCP
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Neville-Winther acid
Nirex
nonjudgments
ovariotubal
Oxhey
Pachuta
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party dress
pear aphid
pharmacotherap
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plough anchor
polymastiid
post-mission replay
profit and loss on securities and investment
pushoff
pyridoxalphenylalanine
rami glandulares nervi glossopharyngici (s. parasympathici)
recirculator
remissive
Rulhieres, C.
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saccharine sodium
Saussurea rockii
second cousins
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shipment period
sounguis
standard text editing capability
static property
STL (synchronous transistor logic)
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theory of stellar interior structure
to agree to sth
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tranel
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ventral surface of cerebrum (or base of cerebrum)
xylos