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

• This may be a bad characteristic when it comes to landing a top job but, given that gaffes are now the number one way of ending a high-profile career, it is a pretty useful trait for survival.
  在争取高级职位时，这或许算不上优点，但鉴于失言如今已成为显赫职业生涯的头号杀手，这个特征对于保全职业生涯可谓非常有用。
• 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。
• Translation verification testers are aware of the product metaphors and are capable of quickly reviewing translations in a side by side fashion in order to catch obvious gaffes.
  翻译验证测试员知道产品隐含意思，并且能够以并列方式快速地复查翻译以便找出明显的过失。
• Japanese public opinion was inflamed by a series of gaffes in the days after the death, when Schindler decided not to co-operate fully with local investigators, or even offer apologies, until it had identified the cause of the malfunction.
  迅达在死亡事故后数日内的一系列不慎言行，激怒了日本公众舆论迅达决定，在该公司验明故障原因之前，不与当地调查机构进行全面合作，甚至也不道歉。
• 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。
• First, there were his easily exploited gaffes.
  首先，他有不少失言，很容易被人利用。
• After two years in Egypt, I had developed a sense of humor about my inevitable social gaffes, but they were still embarrassing.
  我在埃及呆的这两年，已经对我所演绎的社交丑态脸皮厚到一定程度了，尽管他人依旧尴尬。
• 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。
• 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。