gaffe
英 [ɡæf]
美 [ɡæf]
n. 失礼; 失态; 失言
复数：gaffes
BNC.23744 / COCA.19567
牛津词典
noun
- 失礼；失态；失言
a mistake that a person makes in public or in a social situation, especially sth embarrassing
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.- 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。 - ...social gaffes committed by high-ranking individuals.
高层人士在社交场合的一些失态行为
- He made an embarrassing gaffe at the convention last weekend.
- 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.
英英释义
noun
双语例句
- Journalist Michael Kinsley famously defined a political gaffe as when a politician tells the truth& some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say.
记者迈克尔·金斯利曾有一句著名的论断，他说，政客的失态就是说了实话&而且是一些不该说的大实话。 - And the tech press, jarred by an entrepreneur teething on the hands that chose not to feed it, covered him like it would a politician making a Kinsley gaffe.
而科技媒体被创业者的痛楚所震动，对他的报道就好像对一位“意外吐真言”的政客。 - 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。 - He didn't realize what a gaffe he'd made.
他没意识到自己已出乖露丑。 - Some executives may be out of business. Following the embarrassing Christmas Day gaffe, several senior editorial staff was suspended.
有些主管人员也许被停职了。在圣诞节出丑之后，几个主要的编辑被停职。 - I had no idea of the gaffe which I was committing.
我不清楚我犯了什么错误。 - The social sages, who follow rules docilely, care in every moment for their appearance, they fear to commit any gaffe in their social activity.
循规蹈距的社会贤达，时时刻刻地关怀自己的仪容，恐怕有失态之举。 - Mr Berlusconi's mastership of the public gaffe has also been extended to President Obama, whom he memorably described as "young, handsome and tanned".
贝卢斯科尼一向“语出惊人”，就连奥巴马也难逃他的“毒舌”，他曾评价奥巴马“年轻、帅气、皮肤黝黑”，这一评价实在令人“难忘”。 - Moments after the gaffe, an apology appeared.
道歉出现在失误后不久。 - From the way she looked at me when I asked how much money she earned I realized I'd committed an awful gaffe.
当我问她赚多少钱时，从她看我的样子，我了解到我非常的失言。