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》
学英语单词
achlya dubia
armed merchantman
at the end of one's means
austenite grain size
auto expense
bearing with an outer aligning ring
Bernhardt's disturbance of sensation
blue murder
bridge and tunnel watchman
bus service
calcreose
camp point
capitel
cefoselis
color filter frame
complete(sets of) equipment
cosewic
critical capability
cuculus optatus
cupric isovalerate
direct probe
drum-type root cutter
dsb
dybas
ecological segregation
electro hydraulic servo valve
few-flowered sedges
floppy disk formatting
fluid milk
fourier kernel window
frequency polygon
Fuchs' endothelial dystrophy
Gibit
glazed-tile decorative pattern
go back to sth
Harmonyl
heated asphalt
Herminium monorchis
heteropical deposit
hulk off
ID cards
in-line data process
irrigated farming
kanab plat.
Lagopsis flava
laminated lens
lanagitoside
leapfrog system
Leucosceptrum canum
lindbeck
location of cracks
lose one's reckoning of
make good work of something
Marquelia, R.
methylence blue
multi-segmented ship model
mustard sauce
Nancy Astor
nanoohms
nonketogenic hyperosmolar hyperglycemic coma
notes verbales
nutritional deficiencies
open circuit voltage (fuel cell module)
ophiophthalmus
perfect matching
piezoelectric flowmeter
plain ring
pliades
polo stick
poss LQ
posterior pleopoda
pre-flock
protective deck
pseudolasius binghami taivanae
pwb
rampauged
resected point
reservoir bottom
river flood
roylei
self-arrest
semibright
setback corner joint
siagoside
side tackle
space-independent
sparkless operation
St-Même-les-Carrières
sub-leasing
swim cap
thoraco-lumbar division
tonify the liver and kidney
transactional database
tree rat
tuberculosis cutis colliquativa
unconditioned reflexes
universal copyright convention
valvulotomes
varister element
Varley's loop method
vasculitis
whisper campaign