中文词源
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。
英语词源
- 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)).
权威例句
- 1. I had no idea of the gaffe which I was committing.
- 我不清楚我犯了什么错误.
- 2. He didn't realize what a gaffe he'd made.
- 他没意识到自己已出乖露丑.
- 3. 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.
- 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.
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