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)

He didn’t realize what a gaffe he’d made.

他没意识到自己已出乖露丑.

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。

I had no idea of the gaffe which I was committing

我不清楚我犯了什么错误。

The British press had a field day reporting President Bush’s“royal gaffe ”today,printing pictures of Mr.Bush sitting down before Queen Elizabeth at a photo session preceding the dinner at Buckingham Palace.

英国记者报导布什总统今天“对皇家失礼”时大做文章，登出布什先生在白金汉宫宴前摄影时先女王而从的照片。

Following the embarrassing Christmas Day gaffe , several senior editorial staff was suspended.

在圣诞节出丑之后，几个主要的编辑被停职。

Over his career he was renowned for telling jokes, summing up issues with memorable lines, and making the odd gaffe

在他的职业生涯中，他因善于开玩笑，妙语连珠和时不时的出丑而出名。

||1:One of the houses the Clintons bought when they were “dead broke”WHEN Bruce Braley, a little-known Iowa Democrat, dismissed Senator Charles Grassley as “a farmer from Iowa who never went to law school” (a description that fits a lot of Iowa voters), he may not have expected his remarks to be posted online.||2:He should have.America Rising, a firm that conducts “opposition research” on behalf of Republicans, was delighted to disseminate his gaffe , since Mr Braley is running in Iowa for an open US Senate seat.

||1:克林顿夫妇的其中一所房子是在他们山穷水尽时购置的，当时正值来自洛瓦的一名叫做布鲁斯 布拉里的民主党无名小卒称议员查尔斯 格拉斯利是一名从未步入法律院校大门的农民（这种描述对于很多洛瓦选民同样适用），他做梦都不会想到他的言论会在网上曝光，但他早就该有所准备。||2:共和党代表美国崛起公司专门从事反对派的调查活动，它为此欢呼雀跃，奔走呼告，因为布拉里当时正在竞选美国议员席位。

||1:After making a gaffe by naming two “fantastically corrupt” countries before an open microphone (and the queen), David Cameron, Britain’s prime minister, used the ensuing publicity to promote an anti-corruption summit being held in London.||2:One of his proposals is a crackdown on foreign ownership of British property held by shell companies using illegally acquired money.

||1:早前，英国首相戴维·卡梅伦（David Cameron）在公放的麦克风前失态地点名称两个国家是“极度腐败的国家”，当时英国女王也在场（译者注：这两个国家的总统当时也在场）。||2:随后，他公开宣传正在伦敦举行的反腐峰会。他的提案包括严厉打击那些用非法资金持有英国房产的外国空壳公司。

The Academy Awards on February 27th were full of memorable moments. The event will probably be most remembered for the historic gaffe , where Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty gave the best picture award to “La La Land.”

2月27日的奥斯卡金像奖充满了令人难忘的时刻。这次颁奖让人印象最深刻的恐怕就是它历史性的过失吧，因为费·唐娜薇和沃伦·比蒂把最佳影片奖颁给了《爱乐之城》（La La Land）。

It worked. Bridge circulated a video of Todd Akin, a Missouri Republican running for the Senate, using the phrase “legitimate rape”. Mr Akin later said he meant “forcible”, not “legitimate”, but the gaffe probably cost him the election.

这招确实奏效，它曾制作了一部密苏里共和党议员候选人都德阿金的视频，视频中他使用了“合情理强奸”一词，后来他说它是指“强制性强奸”不是“合情理”，但这种错误还是造成其落选。

“You know what I mean” is considered the biggest verbal gaffe by 15% of the population.

15%的民众认为“你知道我的意思”是最大的言语过失。

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。

His Indian trip was extraordinarily gaffe-prone for someone so schooled in the art of public relations.

对于一个深谙公关之道的人来说，他在出访印度时不寻常地多次失言。

Twenty years after Khrushchev’s outburst, the Cold War was still raging and America was due for her own linguistic gaffe .

赫鲁晓夫咆哮后的二十年，冷战还在蔓延，这次轮到美国被翻译耍弄了。

Just after midday today, we witnessed the gaffe that may eventually come to be seen as Gordon Brown’s defining moment as prime minister.

今天中午，我们见证了戈登·布朗当中出丑，这次事件最终会成为布朗首相职业生涯中的一个重要时刻。

Michael Kinsley once defined a political gaffe as the moment “when a politician tells the truth” and is embarrassed by it.

迈克尔-金斯利（MichaelKinsley）曾将“政治乌龙”定义为“政治家讲了真话”并因此感到难为情。

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。

If the president’s misstep in France counted as a gaffe , other false moves have led to calamity.

如果巴基斯坦总统在法国的错误被视为失态行为，那么其他的错误举动则导致了灾难。

I now realize that I should have had the courtesy to acknowledge my gaffe and apologize, but words failed me at the time.

我现在已经意识到自己应该有礼貌地承认自己的失礼，然后表达歉意，但是当时却说不出这样的话来。

Boris Johnson, the Conservative mayor of London elected in May, still seems somewhat gaffe-prone;

五月当选伦敦市市长的保守党分子鲍里斯约翰逊仍然常常丑态百出；

A mild secular analog, he says, might be an executive who commits a horrific social gaffe at the instant of a crucial promotion.

一种温和的世俗分析认为，这也许像一个公司高层在经历了突然的提升之后开始有了一种心理上的失衡。

Having been embarrassed once by such a gaffe , you might have thought that Apple would have cracked down hard on such careless behaviour.

已经因为过失而产生尴尬，你或许已经想到苹果公司将会严厉铲除此类粗心大意的行为。

It also got posted on YouTube (just type “gaffe ” and “Welsh” ).

这段视频还被贴到了YouTube上。（只要输入“gaffe”和“Welsh”就可以搜到）。