gaffes

But these friendly hostelries can be minefields of potential gaffes for the uninitiated.

但对于初来乍到的异国人来说,这些友善的酒吧却犹如潜藏着有惹事危险的“地雷区”.

And management's defenses lack of resources, work loads, communication gaffes are the same excuses they would never accept from their own reports.

管理层的说辞资源少、工作负荷、沟通中的误会都是自己根本不会接受的借口。

Graciously overlooking flaws, errors, and gaffes sets a sweetly gracious tone for your relationship.

优雅地忽略这些缺点、错误和丑态，继而为你俩的关系奠定一个甜蜜且温馨的基调。

Pope Francis has offered a rare, if vague, apology for scandals involving the Roman Catholic Church, after several high-profile gaffes that were linked to the church or its clergy.

最近发生的若干起涉及罗马天主教教会或高级神职人员的事件引发了广泛的关注。罗马天主教宗方济各罕见地为与教会有关的丑闻道歉，尽管道歉比较模糊。

When the microphones were on, gaffes gushed from his lips.

而当电话响起, 他却口无遮拦,屡屡失言.

if mr brown's campaign was inventive, ms coakley's was tepid and prone to gaffes. no glad-handing the punters for this attorney-general.

如果布朗的竞选很有创造力，而科克利的不冷不热且总是出丑，支持者不会与这位检察长微笑握手。

but he flouts etiquette so reliably that you can't call these things gaffes.

无奈萨公素来视礼仪为粪土，故无法谓其失礼。

As the government has attempted to deal with the mess, the opposition Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP) has picked on minor gaffes to justify exaggerated displays of outrage.

就在政府试图收拾乱摊子时，在野党自由民主党（LDP）通过挑毛病来替民众夸张的愤怒辩护。

But he is famous for his verbal gaffes and for talking too much.

不过，他在讲话中经常失言和喋喋不休也尽人皆知。

With confidence in private weather forecasters slipping in the wake of some prediction gaffes during the past couple of years, perhaps woolly worms can take up the slack.

在过去数年间，不少气象预测闹出笑话后，民众对民间气象预测专家的信心也随之下降，现在或许可让毛毛虫来接手预报。

if any company should just give up the ghost and get out of china before making any more pr (and human rights) gaffes, maybe it's yahoo.

如果一家公司能够轻易得放弃自己的道德准则，并且因此在退出中国市场前制造出更多公关（和人权）丑闻的话，那也许只有Yahoo才能办的到。

Mexico has lately been plagued by some serious management gaffes.

墨西哥近来被一些严重的管理丑闻所烦扰.

Such gaffes and inexperience made Mr Kaczynski easy to lampoon.

上述种种失态与缺乏经验,让卡钦斯基先生轻易成为讽刺的对象.

The husband of the Queen of England is notorious for his gaffes while on state visits to other countries.

这位英国女皇的丈夫以他在别国访问时的失态臭名昭着。

The company has also seen its image tarnished by executives'gaffes, and concerns about privacy.

优步公司已经预见到管理者的失误对于公司形象的损害，并就隐私问题表示关切。

Early in the campaign, she made a series of foreign-policy gaffes.

在竞选早期，她犯下一系列的外交政策错误。

First, there were his easily exploited gaffes.

首先, 他有不少失言,很容易被人利用.

After two years in Egypt, I had developed a sense of humor about my inevitable social gaffes, but they were still embarrassing.

我在埃及呆的这两年，已经对我所演绎的社交丑态脸皮厚到一定程度了，尽管他人依旧尴尬。

His six-month premiership has already been rocked by a series of scandals and gaffes.

他作为日本首相上任6个月以来已卷入一系列的丑闻和言语过失之中。

The presidential candidate made three mistakes, or gaffes, during his speech.

校长候选人在演讲中出了三次错，或失态

Ms Royal has been damaged by a succession of foreign-policy gaffes in recent weeks, which have lent her campaign an air of amateurism.

最近几周，罗亚尔女士形象折损于其一系列外交政策的欠缺。

Last year 4200 articles were printed in English about her, more than four times as many than were about her opposite number at AOL, Tim Armstrong ( also bought by Verizon last year)-which is particularly remarkable given how hard he tried to be newsworthy via a string of gaffes.

去年有关迈耶的英文报道有4200篇，几乎四倍于美国在线（AOL，去年也被Verizon收购）的男性CEO蒂姆•阿姆斯特朗（Tim Armstrong）。考虑到阿姆斯特朗多么努力地试图通过一连串的失言让自己上新闻，这一悬殊格外醒目。

The best mistake I ever made was actually a series of gaffes when I was starting out my career.

我犯过的最好的错误，是在职业生涯刚开始时，我干了一连串“傻事”。