contretemps

美 [?kɑntr??tɑ?] 　英 [?k?ntr??t??]

• n.不幸事情；令人難堪的齟齬
• 網(wǎng)絡(luò)意外事故；假進(jìn)攻接防守；不幸意外事故

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

n.	1. 令人窘困的(意外)事故;意料不到的困難[阻礙] 2. 【樂】節(jié)調(diào),約調(diào),切分法

英英解釋

n.	1. an argument that is not very serious

例句

There was a slight contretemps when his wife and his ex-wife arrived together.

當(dāng)他的妻子和他的前妻同時(shí)到來時(shí)，他有點(diǎn)發(fā)窘。

China likewise seems to have learned from the contretemps.

同樣中國也從意外事故中取得了經(jīng)驗(yàn)教訓(xùn)。

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。

It was during this illness that the first real contretemps occurred.

就在這場病里，第一次真正不幸的事故發(fā)生了。

That contretemps is just one example of the conflicting signals on the UK economy.

這場不合時(shí)宜的爭論僅僅是關(guān)于英國經(jīng)濟(jì)種種相互沖突的信號中的一個(gè)例子。

This contretemps meant that a novel that existed in Russia only in samizdat was now in demand worldwide;

這一不幸事件意味著只能在俄國地下出版物市場存在的一部小說卻在全世界范圍內(nèi)受到了歡迎；