gaffe

英 [gæf] 美

解释

※ 提供单词"gaffe"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

gaffe 失礼

原义为钩子，同gaff. 失礼义词源不详，可能是来自拟声词，鸭子叫声，拙劣的说话。

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 *kap- "to grasp, catch" (see capable). 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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4. 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。

5. 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.