英语释义

• a socially awkward or tactless act

片语

gaffe e失言

mistake错误；误会；过失

a gaffe失言

Carl D Gaffe标签

error误差；错误；过失

Peggy Gaffe标签

blame责备；责任；过失

Gaffe Peggy名称

Gaffe Carl D名称

Doctors Gaffe医生过失

sin罪恶；罪孽；过失

fait gaffe小心

to commit a gaffe口无遮拦

英汉例句

• president barack obama has apologized for a gaffe in which he described his bowling skills as akin to participants in the special olympics, a sports program for people with intellectual disabilities.

  美国总统奥巴马日前（在接受采访时）自嘲保龄球技与特奥会运动员差不多，之后他为自己的这番言论道歉。特奥会是专门为智障人士举行的体育赛事。

• just after midday today, we witnessed the gaffe that may eventually come to be seen as gordon brown「s defining moment as prime minister.

  今天中午，我们见证了戈登·布朗当中出丑，这次事件最终会成为布朗首相职业生涯中的一个重要时刻。

• a mild secular analog, he says, might be an executive who commits a horrific social gaffe at the instant of a crucial promotion.

  一种温和的世俗分析认为，这也许像一个公司高层在经历了突然的提升之后开始有了一种心理上的失衡。

• 「you know what i mean」 is considered the biggest verbal gaffe by 15% of the population.

  15%的民众认为「你知道我的意思」是最大的言语过失。

• yet mr wauquiez’s outburst, on a subject outside his ministerial portfolio, now looks less like a gaffe and more like an effort to prepare the ground for a change in social policy.

  沃基耶炮轰自己部长职权之外的话题，如今看来并非失态，反而更像是社会政策改革前的造势。

• bachmann」s gaffe served as a bookend to one made by sarah palin, the week before, when she, too, addressed the events of april, 1775.

  巴赫曼的错误可以和萨拉佩林在一周前在提到1775年四月份事件时犯的错相媲美。

• it was a gaffe by fifa and they must offer an explanation.

  它是一个过失由国际足联，他们必须对受到指责的某种见解或行为加以申辩解释。

• 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」。

• i now realize that i should have had the courtesy to acknowledge my gaffe and apologize, but words failed me at the time.

  我现在已经意识到自己应该有礼貌地承认自己的失礼，然后表达歉意，但是当时却说不出这样的话来。

• add to this painful pas-de-deux the gaffe that mr zardari seems to have made while in france, by saying that nato-led forces are 「losing」 the war in afghanistan.

  而扎尔达里先生在法国访问时曾宣称北约输掉对阿富汗的战争，这对双方目前痛苦的针锋相对的局面来说无异于火上浇油。

• one user jokingly suggested that the gaffe was actually an attempt to cram more racial backgrounds into a single image.

  其中一名用户开玩笑地说道，这个过失实际上是一种尝试，试着把更多的种族背景塞进一张图片中。

• his gaffe has gone viral on the internet.

  他失态的场景已在网上疯传。

• eleven pakistani suspects were arrested immediately after the gaffe but later released without charge.

  丑闻暴露后，十一名涉嫌巴基斯坦人被捕，但随后未经起诉就被释放了。