| 词汇 | gaffe |
| 释义 | gaffe noun[ C ] uk /ɡæf/ us /ɡæf/ a remark or action that is a social mistake and not considered polite: 出丑；失礼；失言 make a gaffeI 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？ Synonym faux pas Compare slipnoun a mistake mistakeIt was just a silly mistake - no need to apologize. errorHe admitted that he'd made an error. blunderThe company was struggling after a series of financial blunders. slipIt was an understandable slip. mix-upThere was a mix-up with the bags at the airport. gaffeI made a real gaffe by calling her "Emma", which is the name of his previous girlfriend. Faults and mistakes (that's) your hard luckidiom aberration Achilles heel adrift black mark blemish errata erratum error failing false move malaprop miscue misfunction misperception misprint that's/it's your funeral!idiom typo uncorrectable uncorrected gaffe | American Dictionarygaffe noun[ C ] us/ɡæf/ an embarrassing mistake: His failure to ask for his teacher’s advice was a major gaffe. Examples of gaffegaffe 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. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That sounds like a gaffe but actually his aim was perfect. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English 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. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English He may not have meant that but it was a gaffe on his part to put it in a letter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe he described it as a gaffe; well, everyone makes gaffes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Newspapers sometimes refer to them as medical gaffes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope, by the way, that that particular gaffe will not be repeated year after year. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I shall go on to refer to something else which may also have been a gaffe. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That comment may have been a political gaffe and a blunder, but we are not making much of that because such things occasionally happen. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have to say that in my country we make the occasional gaffe in this regard. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English But she has now committed a constitutional gaffe of even greater proportions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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