gaffe
gaffe 英 [gæf] 美 [ɡæf]
n. 失态；过失
名词复数:gaffes
- A gaffe is a mistake that embarrasses you in front of others. If you run into a friend out with her grey-haired father, and you blurt out, "Oh, hi, you must be Tara's grandfather!" then you've made a gaffe.
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- n. 失态；过失
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1. 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.
当这位失态的市长发表这份缺根弦儿的声明的几个月后，他发现自己所在的伦敦真的成那个样子了。
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2. "Obama bin Laden": The gaffe has been made so frequently by so many media outlets over the past few days (including Salon) that it has almost become an idiosyncrasy of the bin Laden death story.
奥巴马本拉登“：过去的这几天，太多的媒体（包括沙龙）频繁的出现这种过失，以至于这几乎成为了报导本拉登死亡的一个习惯。
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3. One user jokingly suggested that the gaffe was actually an attempt to cram more racial backgrounds into a single image.
其中一名用户开玩笑地说道，这个过失实际上是一种尝试，试着把更多的种族背景塞进一张图片中。
- gaffe (n.) "blunder," 1909, perhaps from French gaffe "clumsy remark," originally "boat hook," from Middle French gaffe (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" (see gaff (n.2)).
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