gaffe是什么意思

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详细释义

  • 0 a remark or action that is a social mistake and not considered polite -- 出丑;失礼;失言

    • I made a real gaffe - I called his new wife "Judy", which is the name of his ex-wife. 我一时口误出了大丑——把他的新任妻子叫成了“朱迪”,那可是他前妻的名字啊。

    • You started eating before anyone else had been served? What a gaffe! 没等其他人的饭菜上桌你就开始吃了,那是不是有点失礼啊?

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  • There are many well-presented examples, and few obvious gaffes or errors.

  • Aside from many inadequacies in relating the work to the relevant literature, this book is marred by numerous technical errors and gaffes.

  • A negative event (a scandal or gaffe) would thus reduce the score by one for all days until the next event, when it would either increase or decrease by one.

  • Campbell's tone of off-the-cuff approval or dismissal is exacerbated by some editorial gaffes.

  • We must get away from treating every issue as a gaffe, a split or a personality clash.

  • That sounds like a gaffe but actually his aim was perfect.

  • However, there has also been a series of gaffes, such as the failure to implement in good time the standards for disposing of animal carcasses.

  • He may not have meant that but it was a gaffe on his part to put it in a letter.

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  • 中文繁体

    出醜, 失禮, 失言…

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  • Español

    gaffe, metedura de pata, patinazo…

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  • Português

    gafe…

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  • Türk dili

    gaf, pot kırma, bilmeden yapılan utandırıcı şey…

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    gaffe…

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  • Čeština

    chyba, bota, šlápnutí vedle…

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  • Dansk

    brøler, bommert…

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    kesalahan…

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