gaffe

常見(jiàn)例句

Add it to the list of ill-advised statements from the gaffe-happy mayor that, months later, he finds himself in just such a Britain.
當(dāng)這位失態(tài)的市長(zhǎng)發(fā)表這份缺根弦兒的聲明的幾個(gè)月后，他發(fā)現(xiàn)自己所在的倫敦真的成那個(gè)樣子了。
Having been embarrassed once by such a gaffe, you might have thought that Apple would have cracked down hard on such careless behaviour.
已經(jīng)因?yàn)檫^(guò)失而產(chǎn)生尷尬，你或許已經(jīng)想到蘋果公司將會(huì)嚴(yán)厲鏟除此類粗心大意的行為。
One user jokingly suggested that the gaffe was actually an attempt to cram more racial backgrounds into a single image.
其中一名用戶開(kāi)玩笑地說(shuō)道，這個(gè)過(guò)失實(shí)際上是一種嘗試，試著把更多的種族背景塞進(jìn)一張圖片中。

Dan Plesch,director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at London's School of Oriental and African Studies, says the interview was a major gaffe.

This one gaffe will not have everybody thinking that this war hero is a warmonger.
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In 2011 while Groupon was preparing to go public, it made gaffe after gaffe.
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In Tokyo, the government's spin-doctors have been trying to gloss over the prime minister's gaffe.
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