英语释义

• a socially awkward or tactless act

英汉例句

• she thought i was a dress she could look back on and smile, not cringe at fashion faux pas (she was right).

  她认为我是一条她今后看到就能带着笑容回忆的裙子…而不是一件撞衫货…

• we「ve all been guilty of a cultural faux pas twice or more when we cross into unfamiliar territories.

  我们在跨入那不怎么熟悉的地带时，每个人多多少少都会有那么两次以上的失礼与失态（得罪）。

• one of the clumsier faux pas is when a customer fails to inform the master in advance of dislikes or allergies.

  另外，有一种更笨拙的失误行径，就是顾客没事前告知寿司师傅他不喜欢什么或者对什么有过敏反应。

• it」s a look that most girls of kate「s age would eschew, but kate is terrified of making a fashion faux pas and has chosen to play 」safe「 with her wardrobe.

  这是大部分跟凯特同龄的女孩都会避免的造型，但凯特却很害怕打扮的过于前卫时尚，所以在她的衣柜里她更多的选择了「安全」的服饰。

• facebook faux pas include drunken photographs, bad language, and messages complaining about worklife.

  facebook资料中的败笔，包括醉酒照片，脏话，对工作生活和邮件抱怨。

• i」ll meet someone new and not say anything to them because i think it「s a huge faux pas to ask them something uninspired, like where they work.

  我会新认识一些人，却不打算和他们说点什么。因为我认为，如果我说了什么让他们觉得毫无触动的东西，就是巨大的失礼，例如，询问他们在哪里工做。

• worse, any seating faux pas will be instantly broadcast by the pack of journalists and photographers whose beat is the choreography of the front row.

  还有更糟糕的。在安排座位上的任何失礼都会马上被记者和摄影师们快速地传出去，他们的抢先报道可是很有影响力的。

• learning how to dress, shop, walk talk – eat and drink like the social elite anywhere in the world. never make a social faux pas ever again.

  学习上流社会的穿着、购物、行走、交谈及用餐方式，而不再有失礼仪。

• no fashion faux pas we make could ever rival the male」s speedo.

  没有一种时尚赝品可以与男人的速比涛相媲美。

• she added, rather controversially, that red hair was a dating faux pas too. she revealed, 「the only men who like redheads are irish.

  她补充到，颇有争议的是约会时弄红头发是很假的。她透露只有爱尔兰的男人喜欢红头发。

• so much so, in fact, that one japanese fast food chain found that sales were flagging because women had been avoiding the cultural faux pas of showing their open mouths in public.

  事实上，由于日本女性会避免在公共场合狼吞虎咽的失态表现，日本的一家快餐连锁店发现他们的销售量一直在下滑。

• his supervisor still gave him a promotion despite his faux pas at the meeting.

  尽管他开会时犯错，他上司仍然给他升级。

• however it turned out to deemed a faux pas as mother madvertisementse me return the dress.

  可是，结果是母亲要我把衣服退回，真是一件很失礼的事情。

• there」s social faux pas around the molestation of children.

  这种社会性的失礼，是对小孩子的骚扰。

• some people raised their hands to admit that they had committed many of the character’s social faux pas themselves.

  有些人举手承认他们也曾有过男主角所犯的许多社交失态。

• whenever two different groups come together for the first time, we get some friction, clashing of norms, exposing of preconceptions and good old fashioned faux pas by one or more groups.

  当两个不同的团体第一次聚在一起，往往就会有摩擦，抵触，偏见以及陈词滥调失礼失态。

相似词

blunder犯大错，笨嘴笨舌；跌跌撞撞地走；误入（某地）

mistake错误；误会；过失

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gesture作手势；用动作示意

pleasantry幽默；开玩笑