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

• Graciously overlooking flaws, errors, and gaffes sets a sweetly gracious tone for your relationship.
  优雅地忽略这些缺点、错误和丑态，继而为你俩的关系奠定一个甜蜜且温馨的基调。
• Aso, who is also Abe's deputy, has form in offending various sections of the electorate, although criticism of his gaffes tends to run like water off aduck's back.
  麻生是安倍的副手，他已经冒犯了几个区的选民，即使他的口误已经像滴在鸭子羽毛上的水消失的无影无踪了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The husband of the Queen of England is notorious for his gaffes while on state visits to other countries.
  这位英国女皇的丈夫以他在别国访问时的失态臭名昭着。
• First, there were his easily exploited gaffes.
  首先，他有不少失言，很容易被人利用。
• 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。
• 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 anything, she is an undiplomat known less for calibrated circumlocutions than for her plain speaking and sometimes her gaffes, a woman who retains both a formidable political constituency and a laugh she once admitted can send cats scurrying from a room.
  归根结底，她并非传统意义上的外交家（较少字斟句酌的外交辞令，更多直言不讳，有时还会失言），而是一个保留强大政治势力的女性，自己承认发出的笑声足以让猫吓得跑出房间。