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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2-thiophenine
a chicken in every pot
aerial-transport
aerospace flight vehicle
Aghavas
agreement not of alienate territory
allochiral
amons
antarticular(e)
antiprotozoals
aviation meteorological element
back-mutated
back-trackings
balebuste
bawoyeu
be past shame
Bidocef
bridge structure
cajunization
calamata
card module
carini
clino axis
control of expense
cornu inferius cartilaginis thyroideae
deunionises
dichoptous
direct marketing by house to house selling
disembowelling
downman
durapexia
electronic image stabilization
elementwise
endling
error control
exhaust gas cleaner
extensor hallucis longus
falling rate
featherwax
glomus fasciculatum
got above oneself
harpins
high explosive cargo
Hollywoodizing
hydrostatical process
hyperspherical function
immunotoxins
intestinal gas-cysts
IPMA
kaka
keysborough
kilovar instrument
Koware vase with black dragon design
legal ground
lork
measlier
MESRF
multiple aspect searching
nethir
normal program flow
office of science and technology
on off service
peeling cut
play dog
plisetskaya
poromya eximia eximia
prefoldin
production concept of orientation
reactive stupor
rearrangeable network
ridicle
s/370 channel address
Satanities
seriations
shaftlike
sheal
sheath of styloid process
Shibataea chinensis
shutting posts
silicon software
simulated climatic conditions
skamathesia
solution line
spectral set
spine of tibia
St-Michel, Montagne
story grammar
strokesmen
sufflated
takes us
taylor instabillity
terimons
three - dimensional picture
thysanone
tie-dyes
uncoated dot
under-roof
varities
wholesale grain store
yang-kang
zhlub