词汇释义
gaffe TEM8 GRE
UK /ɡæf/ US /ɡæf/
noun, A gaffe is a stupid or careless mistake, for example when you say or do something that offends or upsets people. 失态，失礼
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外刊例句
1. The apparent protocol gaffe at the Turkish presidential palace ignited a public uproar.(Seattle Times)
2. “I’m conceding nothing!” he said, blaming the “gaffe” on a network teleprompter.(New York Times)
3. Her show, “The ReidOut,” succeeds “Hardball” and its host, Chris Matthews, who was forced to resign in March after a series of on-air gaffes and accusations of sexist behavior in the workplace.(New York Times)
4. He made both statements while defending his board’s decision to accept major investments from the Saudi kingdom, and quickly apologized for his gaffe.(New York Times)
5. “Trying to be conversational is not working given that financial markets tend to overreact to those gaffes,” said Tim Duy, University of Oregon economics professor and author of the “Fed Watch” blog.(Washington Post)
6. Coach, which is owned by Tapestry, a luxury fashion holding company based in New York, also lost a prominent China spokeswoman thanks to the gaffe.(New York Times)
7. It was also a horrible political gaffe, a comment that went over poorly in a country then burdened with an 11 percent unemployment rate.(New York Times)
8. In this view, the news media should stop playing up the day-to-day gaffes and campaign tactics in favor of emphasizing serious issues like the candidates’ positions on climate change, the minimum wage and European trade.(New York Times)
9.Industry sources said Macron returned home empty handed after a diplomatic gaffe and some of his own separate comments upset Chinese officials.(Reuters)
10. Also, Mr. Trump and some of his closest allies choose to appear only on Fox News — meaning that any gaffes are bound to appear there, rather than on rival networks.(New York Times)
11. It’s a remarkable gaffe, especially given concerns that the deal will hurt suppliers and cost jobs.(The Guardian)
12.Ms. Huffington declined to discuss board dynamics but said Mr. Bonderman’s resignation, just hours after the gaffe, was “a huge statement about how willing the company is to live by new cultural values.”(New York Times)
词汇搭配
political, diplomatic, remarkable gaffe
词汇家族
gaffes
词汇来源
"blunder," 1909, perhaps from French gaffe "clumsy remark," originally "boat hook" (15c.), from Old Provençal gafar "to seize," probably from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *gaf-, which is perhaps from PIE root *kap- "to grasp." Sense connection between the hook and the blunder is obscure; the gaff was used to land big fish. Or the Modern English word might derive from British slang verb gaff "to cheat, trick" (1893); or gaff "criticism" (1896), from Scottish dialect sense of "loud, rude talk" .
近义词
blunder, error, flub, fumble, goof, lapse, miscue, misstep, mistake, offense (or offence)
反义词
amenity, attention, civility, courtesy, formality, gesture, pleasantry
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