n.(名词)

1. 失态，失礼，出丑
2. 过失
3. 失言，不慎的言行
4. 加夫（音译名）

Noun:

1. a socially awkward or tactless act

1.失态；失礼
Agaffe is a stupid or careless mistake, for example when you say or do something that offends or upsets people.

e.g. He made an embarrassinggaffe at the convention last weekend.
他在上周末的会议上出了洋相，狼狈不堪。
e.g. ...social gaffes committed by high-ranking individuals.
高层人士在社交场合的一些失态行为

2.泄露秘密；走漏消息
If youblow the gaffe orblow the gaff, you tell someone something that other people wanted you to keep secret.

1. 过失：gaff-topsail 顶帆 |gaffe 过失 |gaffer 老人

2. gaffe的近义词

2. 失礼：gad 游荡 |gaffe 失礼 | gag reflex 咽反射

3. 出丑：gaff-topsail 顶帆 |gaffe 出丑 |gaffemalpractice 失态

• I had obviously said the wrong thing, committed a gaffe.

  出自：Blackwood's Magazine

• He gave her a piece of jewellery, and by a clerical gaffe the bill went to his wife.

  出自：C. P. Snow

I had no idea of the gaffe which I was committing.

我不清楚我犯了什么错误。

He didn't realize what a gaffe he'd made.

他没意识到自己已出乖露丑。

Don't make gaffe here, we can discuss about this question at home.

别在这里出丑,这问题我们回家再谈。

She resigned not long after that gaffe.

她在那次失言后不久便主动请辞。

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。

...social gaffes committed by high-ranking individuals.

高层人士在社交场合的一些失态行为

Naturally, Emmons retired to the bar at the shooting venue to drink away his historic gaffe.

埃蒙斯很自然地来到赛场所在地的酒吧里,想借酒浇愁,忘掉这历史性的耻辱.

Don't make gaffe here, we can discuss about this question at home.

别在这里出丑, 这问题我们回家再谈.

All officials were waiting to see Beigong She's gaffe.

文武百官于是都在旁等著看北宫奢如何出丑.

Following the embarrassing Christmas Day gaffe, several senior editorial staff was suspended.

在圣诞节出丑之后, 几个主要的编辑被停职.

History indicates that a bad performance, particularly a telling gaffe, can badly damage a candidate in the polls.

历史表明,如果候选人表现不佳, 特别是失言之举, 会使他们在大选中严重受损.

He would have to make amends for his monumental gaffe of earlier today.

他一定得对今天早上极端失礼的行为进行补救.

I had no idea of the gaffe which I was committing.

我不清楚我犯了什么错误.

The face of my gaffe, I think he should have shocked the bar!

面对我的失态, 我想他应该愣住了吧!

He didn't realize what a gaffe he'd made.

他没意识到自己已出乖露丑.

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。