大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 contretemps
释义:
contretemps n. (法)意外事故;窘困之事
[ 复数 contretemps ]
例句:
One Georgetown player shrugged off the contretemps. "Man, it's just a game," he said.
一名乔治城球员轻松地说道:“不过只是一场比赛而已。”
The era that we are living in is one full of stress: economic crisis, contretemps, frustration in school work, disharmony about interpersonal relations etc.
我们所处的时代是一个充满压力的时代:经济窘迫、意外事故、学业受挫、人际关系不和谐等都会给身心带来影响。
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.
应用表明,该系统简单、实用,能及时为用户提供准确信息,能动地减少了事故发生。
Al-Alam beamed suspiciously instantaneous accounts of the contretemps to viewers in Iraq and elsewhere.
White House spokesman Bill Burton minimized the contretemps, saying people are entitled to disagree in a democracy.
Marshall is now on a counterattack in a juicy contretemps that serves up lessons for families grappling with wealth transfer.
This particular contretemps is over the design for a memorial for Dwight Eisenhower.
Keep the meeting short, and make sure each person speaks to you and not to the other party in this contretemps.
The Apple in this contretemps is no longer the adventuresome White Knight jousting with establishment dragons on behalf of an innovation-hungry public.
Only after two threatened contempt of Congress votes did the White House surrender the documents that led to the current contretemps on Capitol Hill.
Nike gets most of its sales from giant retail chains, not skate shops, but the contretemps was enough to make Nike uncool with the teenage skateboarding crowd.
The contretemps involves former Westchester County district attorney Jeanine Pirro, recorded by the police talking with Kerik last year about bugging her husband's boat to expose an affair.
Some Russian liberals see this contretemps as a foreign-policy turning-point.
Overcoming awkward contretemps is what diplomats are expected to do.
The contretemps involves former Westchester County (New York) district attorney Jeanine Pirro, recorded by the police talking with Kerik last year about bugging her husband's boat to expose an affair.
Perhaps the Millennium contretemps will finally galvanize the directors.
After Mr Khodorkovsky's arrest, many western fund-managers in Moscow told anyone who would listen that the problem was merely a private contretemps between the tycoon and the president, from which Yukos would emerge unscathed.
