gaffes

英 [gæfs]

美 [gæfs]

n.  失礼; 失态; 失言
gaffe的复数

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.

双语例句

• He was modest and charming in private, although visibly ill-at-ease on big public occasions and prone to gaffes and unnecessary controversies.
  他私下里平易近人，充满魅力，尽管在公共场合明显局促不安，容易失态并引发不必要的争论。
• Early in the campaign, she made a series of foreign-policy gaffes.
  在竞选早期，她犯下一系列的外交政策错误。
• If the Republican looks and sounds like an American statesman abroad, and, most important, avoids any obvious gaffes, his tour will have served its purpose.
  如果这位共和党人看起来和听起来都像是一个出访的美国政治家，而且最重要的是，他能避免任何明显的失误，那么他的巡演已经达到了初衷。
• His six-month premiership has already been rocked by a series of scandals and gaffes.
  他作为日本首相上任6个月以来已卷入一系列的丑闻和言语过失之中。
• Ms Royal has been damaged by a succession of foreign-policy gaffes in recent weeks, which have lent her campaign an air of amateurism.
  最近几周，罗亚尔女士形象折损于其一系列外交政策的欠缺。
• After two years in Egypt, I had developed a sense of humor about my inevitable social gaffes, but they were still embarrassing.
  我在埃及呆的这两年，已经对我所演绎的社交丑态脸皮厚到一定程度了，尽管他人依旧尴尬。
• Japanese public opinion was inflamed by a series of gaffes in the days after the death, when Schindler decided not to co-operate fully with local investigators, or even offer apologies, until it had identified the cause of the malfunction.
  迅达在死亡事故后数日内的一系列不慎言行，激怒了日本公众舆论迅达决定，在该公司验明故障原因之前，不与当地调查机构进行全面合作，甚至也不道歉。
• Aside from basic procedural errors asking to many obvious questions, watching the house too closely the team had made some gaffes that seemed almost beyond belief.
  除了犯下一些基本的程序错误，比如向周围的人问了太多过于敏感的问题，对房屋的监视太近，他们还犯了一些看起来难以置信的错误。
• With confidence in private weather forecasters slipping in the wake of some prediction gaffes during the past couple of years, perhaps woolly worms can take up the slack.
  在过去数年间，不少气象预测闹出笑话后，民众对民间气象预测专家的信心也随之下降，现在或许可让毛毛虫来接手预报。
• Robertson said that Blatter should resign, particularly given Blatter's repeated gaffes and wider concerns over corruption and corporate governance.
  罗伯森说布拉特应该辞职，特别是布拉特一直以来都面临腐败和合谋的指责。