时间:2019-02-07 作者:英语课 分类:英语每日一词


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
-tent
anas strepera
anchor mast
angle of crater
animal head carrouches
archesporium
aromatic cyclodehydration
attitudes scale
audit steps and procedures
baked eggs
Bapt
Beauty is only skin deep.
bid deadline
bread panning machine
burnisher proof
cable mounting ear
carisma
carpenter trousers
causative agents
Chimonobambusa convoluta
Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture
cine camera lens
constitution day
devata
direct symptom
dual rank register
dynamic focus circuit
Ehrlich's side-chain theory
end-construction tile
extra best quality
fire protecting rules
fly sheave
foster mothers
foul weather
fracture micromechanics
fuel damage limit
future worth
gardenstores
Golgi's mixed staining method
good neighbor policy
grats
hicore
high chrome steel
inconfused
interface specification language
internal chemical cleaning
intervertebral line
items applicable to principal
kendren
Lambangan
leise
leptocera (rachispoda) subtinctipennis
linges
logopedists
machinery bronze
Mel'nikov integral
moakler
multiskill progressive training
my head
negative capacity
nelson
nioben
noctial
non-osmotic membrane equilibrium
open discharge
order-of-magnitude
out-of-trim moment
perferably
plane deformation
presentationally
pride-gavel
Puccinia seposita
pulmonary disease due to Mycobacterium kansasii
pv array simulator
pyrodust
ratafees
reflectance anomaly
reject bin
reprivatizes
rheed
Rhinoptera
rocking motion
saickless
segmental enteritis
semen gleditsiae sinensis
session handle
sign and countersign
sphenoidal dihedron
subservience
sulfindigotate culture-medium
T-Fluoride
Tasmanians
telescopists
Termesthesia
thermal output of reactor
triplomicrotubule
ultra-high-frequency wave
up-up-up
vertical files
Waldorf salads
wind-tunnel
Zilazonium