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
- The second gaffe was to choose to resolve disputes not in China but in an arbitration court in Stockholm.
第二个过失是，选择在斯德哥尔摩的一家仲裁庭，而不是在中国解决纠纷。 - BBC staff are being trained on the correct way to report the Queen's death in a bid to avoid another embarrassing gaffe.
英国广播公司的工作人员正在接受培训，如何以正确的方法来报告女王死讯，以免带来另一场尴尬失态。 - He would have to make amends for his monumental gaffe of earlier today.
他一定得对今天早上极端失礼的行为进行补救。 - NARRATOR: Attlee, a mild-mannered Christian Socialist, gave Churchill's gaffe a sinister spin.
旁白：艾德礼这位温文有礼的基督徒和社会主义者。 - The hilarious gaffe shows the journalist with his head slumped on his chest as the studio news anchor tries without success to wake him.
在那段令人捧腹的失态视频中，卢兹达头部低垂着，新闻工作室主播试图叫醒他却没有成功。 - 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。 - He didn't realize what a gaffe he'd made.
他没意识到自己已出乖露丑。 - The gaffe is all the more irritating for the Republicans because they have just had a very successful convention.
对共和党人而言，这一失言尤其让人恼火的是他们刚刚开完一场非常成功的全国代表大会。 - 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。 - I had no idea of the gaffe which I was committing.
我不清楚我犯了什么错误。