gaffe
[gæf]
n.过失, 失态, 出丑, 失言
例句与用法：
He didn't realize what a gaffe he'd made.
他没意识到自己已出乖露丑。
词形变化：
动词过去式: gaffed | 动词过去分词: gaffed | 动词现在分词: gaffing | 动词第三人称单数: gaffs |
n.
【法】失礼, 失态(尤指社交、外交上的出丑)
gaffe[ɡæf]n.1.■[法语]过失；失礼，言行的失态；出丑
gaffegaffe[ɡæf]n.1.■[法]过失, 不慎的言行, 出丑; 失败
[gaf]
noun
- an unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator; a blunder
失礼，失言，失态；过失
- early 20th cent.: from French, literally boathook' (from Provençal gaf: see gaff), used colloquially to mean 'blunder'
gaffe
■gaffe gaffe is a tool is for creating simple animations for spicing up video presentations, Web sites, or greeting cards.
gaffe是一个创建简单的动画的工具，可以调剂渲染视频表现，Web站点，或问候卡片。
■S.R.Sidarth is a new kind of political campaign worker, called a "tracker," who follows candidates with a video camera, waiting for an embarrassing gaffe that can be turned into political gain.S.R.
Sidarth是一类新兴政治竞选运动的工作者，这类人被称为“跟踪者”，他们用摄像机跟踪拍摄候选人，等待时机拍下他们困窘的丑态从而转变为政治筹码。
■blew the gaff
v. 泄露秘密(告密)
■stood the gaff
v. 能忍受各种折磨(能吃苦, 经得起考验)
■blow the gaff
vi. 泄露秘密(告密)
■stand the gaff
vi. 能忍受各种折磨(能吃苦, 经得起考验)
■"I have the gaff now," he said.
“我现在还有那根鱼钩，"他说。
■“I have the gaff now,” he said. “But it will do no good. I have the two oars and the tiller and the short club.”
“我现在还有那根鱼钩，"他说。"不过它没什么用处。我还有两把桨和那个舵把和那根短棍。”
■"I have the gaff now," he said. "But it will do no good. I have the two oars and the tiller and the short club."
“我现在还有那根鱼钩，“他说。”不过它没什么用处。我还有两把桨和那个舵把和那根短棍。”
■"The excursion had in his eyes been a monstrous gaffe, a breach of sensibility and good taste" (Mary McCarthy)
“那次谈话中的离题在他看来太出丑了，简直就是失去理智后的胡言乱语，毫无高尚趣味可言”(玛丽·麦卡锡)
■1. A mountaineer must learn to stand the gaff.
一个登山运动员必须学会吃苦。
■Even Mr Brown, in hismonumental Commons gaffe last week, let it slip that he and his teamhave "saved the world" when it comes to the crumblingfinancial system.
一揽子救援计划，银行干预，全球行动-我们被告知所有机构都已就位，尽可能的降低这场金融危机的持续时间和影响。
■a triangular or square sail set above the gaff of a lower sail on a fore-and-aft-rigged ship
上桅帆在无横帆船上，位于低层帆斜桁以上的方形或三角形帆
■penny gaff
下等杂耍场或下等戏院
■Occasionally, a real gaffe was about to emerge.
丢脸的事的确时有发生。
■Wuduo stuck out her tongue in dismay at her gaffe.
五多把舌伸伸，表示口不关风说错了话。
■About 20 nig of GAFF was obtained from 1 kg of fresh conn.
从每千克鲜球茎中可分离得GAFP约20 mg。
■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。
■They killed Green because he was about to blow the gaff on their drug dealing.
他们杀死了格林，因为他要把他们贩毒的事情说出去。
■When they reached the old man's shack the boy took the rolls of line in the basket and the harpoon and gaff and the old man carried the mast with the furled sail on his shoulder.
他们走进老人的窝棚，孩子拿起装在篮子里的钓索卷儿，还有鱼叉和鱼钩，老人把绕着帆的桅杆扛在肩上。
■But that gaffe is matched by his incompetence in the Barca game, when Gonzo (left) needed help from a linesman after a tussle.
他刚刚吹掉了亨利的一个好球，他以亨利手球为由吹掉了这个扳平比分的好球，但是录像给了亨利真正的清白，
■He used somebody else's invitation card to get into the party, and nobody would have known if Cathy had not blown the gaff.
他利用别人的请帖混入了那个聚会，如果不是凯西说出真情，谁也不知道这回事。
■Holding the line with his left shoulder again, and bracing on his left hand and arm, he took the tuna off the gaff hook and put the gaff back in place.
他又用左肩挎住了钓索，把左手和胳臂撑在座板上，从鱼钩上取下金枪鱼，再把鱼钩放回原处。
■"I have never made any gaffes, not even one, every gaffe is invented by the newspapers," he said from his office in Palazzo Grazioli, his official Rome residence.
他在他葛拉索莉府邸也就是他在罗马的官方住所表示''我从没有弄出过任何丑闻，一个也没有，所有的丑闻都是报纸编撰出来的''
■He didn't realize what a gaffe he'd made.
他没意识到自己已出乖露丑。
■He can play the violin nearly well enough to earn money in the orchestra of a penny gaff, but not quite.
他的小提琴拉得差不多可以在一个三流戏院的乐队里挣钱，不过还不够好。
■He knelt down and found the tuna under the stern with the gaff and drew it toward him keeping it clear of the coiled lines.
他跪下来，用鱼钩在船梢下找到了那条金枪鱼，小心不让它碰着那几卷钓索，把它钩到自己身边来。
■Deputy director seems to want me in the face gaffe.
似乎想让我在赵副局长面前出丑。
■But neither candidate appeared to land a knock-out blow or commit the kind of major gaffe that could turn the campaign around.
但双方都未能在辩论中获得压倒性优势，也没有犯下可导致扭转战局的重大失误。
■But that one was a relatively easy gaffe to spot. D-Will honestly should have been there from the start.
但这只是相对轻松的一点调整。坦率地说，威廉姆斯应该一开始就出现在那个位置上。
■But skipper Ferdinand believes what Cole needed was some encouragement after the gaffe.
但队长费迪南德相信科尔在过失背后需要的是鼓励。
■What did you figure to do when you drove overboard with the gaff?
你拿着鱼叉跳下水的那会儿，你考虑过该怎么干吗?
■You will make yourself gaffe if you wear like this to go to the weddling.
你要是穿这身去参加婚礼，你会出丑的。
■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。
■Other world leaders see the Pope with their advisers and the Vatican's peerlessly punctilious protocol experts, making sure they do not commit the slightest gaffe.
其他国家领导人见罗马教皇时都要带着顾问和梵蒂冈最优秀的礼仪专家，以确保自己不出现一丁点的失礼行为。
■The gaffe seemed a little odd as Alberta doesn't have any coastline and was soon spotted by those in the know.
其实这则造假广告很不高明，因为艾伯塔是没有海岸线的内陆省份，有人看到广告后很自然地想到这一点并进而发出质疑。
■Over the centuries, the Vatican has tried, often grudgingly and always in vain, to correct its Galileo gaffe.
几百年来，梵蒂冈多次尝试纠正在伽利略问题上所犯的过失，态度通常都比较勉强，而且无一例外均以失败告终。
■Analysts were quick to pounce on the gaff by McCain who has repeatedly emphasized his experience in national security affairs and said he would make Iraq a major issue in the presidential campaign.
利伯曼说：“有媒体报导说，基地组织正回到伊朗接受训练，然后从伊朗返回伊拉克。大家都了解这个情况，这是个不幸的情况。
■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。
■Gaff possessed powerful strength in his slim form, and could leap amazing distances.
加夫虽然体形瘦削，但力大无比，其弹跳力更是惊人。
■ROME, Italy (CNN) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has told CNN he has never committed a gaffe and that he doesn't like his job much these days.
包意大利总理贝鲁斯科尼告诉CNN说他从来没有过任何丑闻，因此这些天来他不怎么喜欢他这份工作。
■To raise(a gaff)above the horizontal.
升起斜桁把(桅斜桁)升过水平面
■To raise(a gaff) above the horizontal.
升起斜桁把（桅斜桁）升过水平面
■Nautical To raise (a gaff) above the horizontal.
升起斜桁：把（桅斜桁）升过水平面
■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。
■2. 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。收藏指正
■A two-masted sailing ship, square-rigged on both masts, carrying two or more headsails and a quadrilateral gaff sail or spanker aft of the mizzenmast.
双桅横帆船有两根桅杆的帆船，每个桅杆上都有横帆，载有两个或更多的前帆和一个四边形的斜桁帆或在后桅的尾部装有后樯纵帆
■A two-masted sailing ship,square-rigged on both masts,carrying two or more headsails and a quadrilateral gaff sail or spanker aft of the mizzenmast.
双桅横帆船有两根桅杆的帆船，每个桅杆上都有横帆，载有两个或更多的前帆和一个四边形的斜桁帆或在后桅的尾部装有后樯纵帆。
■Nautical A two-masted sailing ship, square-rigged on both masts, carrying two or more headsails and a quadrilateral gaff sail or spanker aft of the mizzenmast.
双桅横帆船：有两根桅杆的帆船，每个桅杆上都有横帆，载有两个或更多的前帆和一个四边形的斜桁帆或在后桅的尾部装有后樯纵帆
■get the gaff
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