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
- 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。 - Turns out we committed an awful gaffe yesterday.
看起来我们昨天出了个大丑。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Over his career he was renowned for telling jokes, summing up issues with memorable lines, and making the odd gaffe.
在他的职业生涯中，他因善于开玩笑，妙语连珠和时不时的出丑而出名。 - Moments after the gaffe, an apology appeared.
道歉出现在失误后不久。 - 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。 - 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”。 - 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。