gaffe

英 [ɡæf]

美 [ɡæf]

n.  失礼; 失态; 失言

复数：gaffes　

GRE

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.
  1. 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。
  2. ...social gaffes committed by high-ranking individuals.
     高层人士在社交场合的一些失态行为
• 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

• a socially awkward or tactless act
  Synonym:faux passolecismslipgaucherie

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• All officials were waiting to see Beigong She's gaffe.
  文武百官于是都在旁等着看北宫奢如何出丑。
• I had no idea of the gaffe which I was committing.
  我不清楚我犯了什么错误。
• A political gaffe is most dangerous when it seems to confirm what voters already suspect.
  当政治上的失言看上去证实了选民们已有的怀疑时，这种失言是最危险的。
• 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。
• For the GOP, he's more like the gaffe that keeps on goofing.
  对大佬党来说，他更像一个不断出现过失的傻子。
• He didn't realize what a gaffe he'd made.
  他没意识到自己已出乖露丑。
• Moments after the gaffe, an apology appeared.
  道歉出现在失误后不久。
• 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。