gaffes

英 [gæfs]

美 [gæfs]

n.  失礼; 失态; 失言
gaffe的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 失态；失礼
  Agaffeis a stupid or careless mistake, for example when you say or do something that offends or upsets people.
  1. 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。
  2. ...social gaffes committed by high-ranking individuals.
     高层人士在社交场合的一些失态行为
• 泄露秘密；走漏消息
  If youblow the gaffeorblow the gaff, you tell someone something that other people wanted you to keep secret.

双语例句

• His six-month premiership has already been rocked by a series of scandals and gaffes.
  他作为日本首相上任6个月以来已卷入一系列的丑闻和言语过失之中。
• Aside from basic procedural errors asking to many obvious questions, watching the house too closely the team had made some gaffes that seemed almost beyond belief.
  除了犯下一些基本的程序错误，比如向周围的人问了太多过于敏感的问题，对房屋的监视太近，他们还犯了一些看起来难以置信的错误。
• Graciously overlooking flaws, errors, and gaffes sets a sweetly gracious tone for your relationship.
  优雅地忽略这些缺点、错误和丑态，继而为你俩的关系奠定一个甜蜜且温馨的基调。
• He was modest and charming in private, although visibly ill-at-ease on big public occasions and prone to gaffes and unnecessary controversies.
  他私下里平易近人，充满魅力，尽管在公共场合明显局促不安，容易失态并引发不必要的争论。
• But Smith crushes Gooden on PER this season, and isn't prone to mental gaffes the way Gooden is.
  但是史密斯在效率指数上超过古登，而且他也不太可能会犯古登那样的失误。
• With confidence in private weather forecasters slipping in the wake of some prediction gaffes during the past couple of years, perhaps woolly worms can take up the slack.
  在过去数年间，不少气象预测闹出笑话后，民众对民间气象预测专家的信心也随之下降，现在或许可让毛毛虫来接手预报。
• If the Republican looks and sounds like an American statesman abroad, and, most important, avoids any obvious gaffes, his tour will have served its purpose.
  如果这位共和党人看起来和听起来都像是一个出访的美国政治家，而且最重要的是，他能避免任何明显的失误，那么他的巡演已经达到了初衷。
• The husband of the Queen of England is notorious for his gaffes while on state visits to other countries.
  这位英国女皇的丈夫以他在别国访问时的失态臭名昭着。
• Aso, who is also Abe's deputy, has form in offending various sections of the electorate, although criticism of his gaffes tends to run like water off aduck's back.
  麻生是安倍的副手，他已经冒犯了几个区的选民，即使他的口误已经像滴在鸭子羽毛上的水消失的无影无踪了。
• After two years in Egypt, I had developed a sense of humor about my inevitable social gaffes, but they were still embarrassing.
  我在埃及呆的这两年，已经对我所演绎的社交丑态脸皮厚到一定程度了，尽管他人依旧尴尬。