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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a.c./d.c. converter
aapg (american association of petroleum geologists)
acorned
adequate and systematic service
aim-criers
air run takeoff
an odd fish
ascensional vntilation
automatic milling machine
Blatch
Brabant, Prov.de
brevitoxin
Bruxelles
burmas
can goods
canada falls l.
cascade starting
centrinel
chain terminal
Cladosporium mansoni
coastal oceanography
coding program
cognates
coherently
conproportion
corbieres mts.
cutting off turning tool
dibenzyl ether
direct verdict
doclea japonica
ethyl susceptibility
fine-point
flexible car roof
fuse-blade
futira
glassmakings
guiding effect
Hemmerde
heterorugate
Hoa Son
horners method
indebted to
instrumental inertia smoothing
iridectropium
judgments payable
Lake Camm
marine radio aids
melodramaticism
mlada
muishond
multicusped
muriaficus
musculi colli
nefis
oil of olive
on'y
optoelectronic power generator
orifice plate flowmeter
overtrusting
oxaliferous cystidium
p-chlorophenol
partially weather protected location
Pedicularis chenocephala
photographic store
pneumatic sand scrubber
prolapse of mucosa
protoetiprophyrin
quiet-time proton belt
ragging us
relinkages
road identification sign
Rossel I.
safety jaw
Salinian formation
schermer
self-inductions
shirley analyzer
skler-
solid injection engine
soundworlds
squeezibility
steam feed
stone lace
stroke lightning
super cop
superficial vapour velocity
syrup of plum
to sell
Tongkingese
tool joint thread
tossing away
tournefort
trailing arbutus
training device
tropiques
Vaspari
vepricardium sinense
vibration receiver
voiturette
weeniedos
Woolsthorpe
wynnsters