contretemps
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈkɒn.trə.tɒ]
- 美式音标 [ˈkɑːn.trə.tɑː]
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基本解释
- n. （法）意外事故；窘睏之事
英汉例句
- Her male cousins had hardly prepared her for a contretemps with a man she desired.
就她想要的男人，她的男表親不希望她有挫折。
blog.sina.com.cn - The application results show that the system is simple and applied, and offers exact information that came from coal mine in time, decreases contretemps forwardly.
應用表明，該系統簡單、實用，能及時爲用戶提供準確信息，能動地減少了事故發生。 - One Georgetown player shrugged off the contretemps. "Man, it's just a game, " he said.
一名喬治城球員輕松地說道：“不過衹是一場比賽而已。” - Al-Alam beamed suspiciously instantaneous accounts of the contretemps to viewers in Iraq and elsewhere.
ECONOMIST: The Iranians are blowing hot and cold in Iraq - Marshall is now on a counterattack in a juicy contretemps that serves up lessons for families grappling with wealth transfer.
FORBES: The Father, the Son and High Society - This particular contretemps is over the design for a memorial for Dwight Eisenhower.
FORBES: Why Ike? Was He Such a Great Leader That He Deserves a Memorial?
雙語例句
權威例句
英英字典
- a small argument or unlucky event, often happening in public and causing social embarrassment
- an awkward or difficult situation or mishap