音标:[gæfs] ;
n. 失礼, 出丑( gaffe的复数形式 )
n. a socially awkward or tactless act

Are you the person who sends too many of these...? The chain letter. Just, you know, send on to another, another, your best, your 20 best friends. Don't do that to anybody, that's wrong. Do you litter

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1. A senior US government official says BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward is being replaced. Hayward made several gaffes, most notably wishing to have his life back and going to a yacht race while oil washed up on Gulf shores. 2. Flooding in eastern Io

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Members of the British Petroleum executive, from left, outgoing CEO Tony Hayward, Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg, and incoming CEO Bob Dudley, pose for the media outside their global headquarters in London, 27 Jul 2010 The international oil giant BP h

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Smart email use is all about common sense. By Eric Wilinski Just because e-mail is an everyday part of life in the office doesn't mean it's something you don't have to think carefully about. Sending or receiving ill-conceived or improper email via yo

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

在政界里,国家领导人是否也遭遇过尴尬呢,他们又是如何巧妙得化解的呢 Neil: Hello, I'm Neil. Callum: And I'm Callum. Neil: And this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. Today we're talking about political gaffe

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Boris is known for his wild blonde hair London has a new mayor , after its citizens voted in the Conservative Party candidate Boris Johnson, ahead of Labour's Ken Livingstone. Well-known for his wild blonde hair, his self-deprecating humour and his

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Callum: Hello, welcome to 6 Minute English. Im Callum and with me today is Neil. Hello Neil. Neil: Hi there Callum. Callum: In todays programme were going to be talking about the word omnishambles. Every year a committee at the Oxford English Diction

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每年都会出一些新的词汇,一团糟对应的英文单词是omnishambles,这是一个新造的词,这些词语是怎么来的呢? Callum: Hello, welcome to 6 Minute English. Im Callum and with me today is Neil. Hello Neil. Neil: Hi the

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Good afternoon, from the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Reggie Aqui. Here is a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. Police in California confirm that search teams have found the wreckage of the plane Steve Fossett was flying when he disappeared. Th

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The end is in sight. 终点就在眼前。 In 50 days we will know whether Donald Trump has pulled off the biggest upset in American history. 再过不到50天,我们将知道唐纳德?特朗普(Donald Trump)是否会爆出美国历史上最大的冷

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你不必为了彼此的相处而额外挤出一个小时的时间,以下的六大高招就可以让你俩立刻亲密起来。 1. Be funny. 情趣Kind-spirited humor can douse a hot argument, head off a fight, and turn the drudgery of household resp

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Just because e-mail is an everyday part of life in the office doesn't mean it's something you don't have to think carefully about. 因为用工作邮箱接收和发送一些不怀好意的或是不合适的信件可能导致各种不堪设想的后果。

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如果大家觉得这些材料理解上有难度,不妨当做挑战自己的拔高训练,希望大家都有进步While having a meal with his wife in his home town of Utica in 2007, the pollster John Zogby struck up a conversation with his 20-yea

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During his Macworld keynote address, Jobs walked through the details of the Microsoft deal. 在Macworld大会的主题演讲中,乔布斯介绍了跟微软合作的细节。 At first there were groans and hisses from the faithful. 一开始,那些忠

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Former Goldman Sachs banker Malcolm Turnbull will become Australias fourth prime minister in the space of two years after leading a coup against incumbent and long-time adversary Tony Abbott. 高盛(Goldman Sachs)前银行家马尔科姆礠楲布尔(

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Smart email use is all about common sense. By Eric Wilinski Just because e-mail is an everyday part of life in the office doesn't mean it's something you don't have to think carefully about. Sending or receiving ill-conceived or improper email via yo

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By Rosemary Haefner Hiring managers don't want to hear a lot of things during an interview -- confessions of a violent past, a cell phone ring, a toilet flush. Yet job seekers have committed these interview gaffes and worse, according to CareerBuilde

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Hiring managers don't want to hear a lot of things during an interview confessions of a violent past, a cell phone ring, a toilet flush. Yet job seekers have committed these interview gaffes and worse, according to CareerBuilder.com's annual survey o

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The Republican response 共和党回应 When Joni poked Barry 乔尼戳巴里脊梁骨 A polite request for the president to co-operate 客气要求总统合作 JONI ERNST did not flub her lines or commit any gaffes. So compared with Republican effor

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admittance comparator
alkali spot
Amishness
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basic lead carbonate
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bone lever
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calophya mangiferae
Campo Formoso
cerc-
cetyltriethylammonium bromide
congestive headache
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