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
aberdeen finish
Anamnia
b. a ton
be callous to
blow-out circuit
bronze silicon
built-in proof
cassia seed
cephalism
characteristic data of computer
chinrest
Classified Board
complete cavitation
concentrated boric acid solution
conditioned duty free importation
core boring
Crista colli costae
cryptogrammic
cylinder lens
dacryolithus
delay fuze
DLST
dolichosaur
Donnan's equilibrium
dotard
Etambro
evolves
fasciculus cerebrospinalis lateralis
favoritisms
fibre optics camera
fire main system
freedomway
furmaniak
gastrologically
genus gempyluss
gloss-over
go and return path
grade of abrasive tool
Hartwall
hearkens
ichthyotoxicum
inter-individual
interactive fiction
Internet File System
interpretator
LAN parties
limonia (libnotes) limpida
LL (live load)
mactates
minimizable
mora creditoris
myonichikan
nephrocytes
nitryl complex
not ok liquor
Oakvale
Opasnyye, Ostrova
oppositifolious
opus latericium
p-cyanostyrene
patellar
pedatum
Peng-Robinson equation
plumb-line
poisonous snakes
pollen morphology
poppy oil
premenarchally
proclamation of war
proper tone
pseudoarchaeologists
pulpefaction
random scan function
Rehbein procedure
Rehobother Bastard
repressed
rhenic
Ribbon silicon
Rosette Nebula
secondary hypothyroidism
selecting card
shunting controller
sit with someone
small calorie (cal )
soft top cintainer
sooglossids
springing course
static load deflection
submental lymph nodes
sym-dibromoacetone
television-station
teratoids
thyasira borshengi
trial load operation
triphosphopyridine nucleotide
Tymna, Laguna
unenforceabilities
unstrand
wallopped
water-pressure regulation
waxworm
wwave mechanics