slip-up

英 [ˈslɪp ʌp]

美 [ˈslɪp ʌp]

n.  疏漏; 差错

复数：slip-ups　

牛津词典

noun

• 疏漏；差错
  a careless mistake

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 轻微的过错;疏漏
  Aslip-upis a small or unimportant mistake.
  1. There's been a slip-up somewhere...
     有个地方出了点小错。
  2. The girls had made three crucial slip-ups.
     这些女孩犯下了 3 个重大的错误。

英英释义

noun

• a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
  Synonym:slipmiscueparapraxis

双语例句

• We cannot afford another slip-up like this one.
  像这样的差错我们再犯不得了。
• He is ready to catch me up whenever there is a slip-up in my speech.
  每当我讲话有点差错时，他就要找我的岔子。
• If you don't keep it clean in some Connecticut high schools, you could wind up shelling out a Benjamin, for a sassy slip-up.
  在康州有些中学，你要是嘴巴不干不净，一句粗话脱口闹不好就要你赔上一百美刀。
• Rest assured that the merger suggestion was not a slip-up, said one Hong Kong investment banker. It was a way to both spoil the party [ for Singapore] and test the waters.
  合并的暗示肯定并非一时疏忽，一位香港投资银行家表示，这种做法既搅乱了（新加坡的）计划，又起到了试探作用。
• While Liverpool have suffered the occasional slip-up at the back, Carra takes heart from the22 goals fired at the other end.
  然而，目前利物浦已经在后防犯下大大小小的失误，卡拉从另外一边22个进球拿到心得。
• We are not talking of an odd slip-up.
  我们并不是在谈论零星的错误。
• "Due to a big slip-up, the students were sent home early today."
  “由于一个大疏忽，使得学生今天提早放学回家。”
• BlackRock has laboured hard to distinguish itself from the "vampire squids" of Wall Street, but a slip-up could threaten its relatively wholesome image, which is important to its pension-fund clients.
  贝莱德好不容易把自己从华尔街“吸血鬼乌贼”中区分出来，它相对良好的形象，对养老基金客户而言，非常重要。
• The organizers made a slip-up in the reservations.
  组织者在预定房间时出了个差错。
• Due to a slip-up at the power plant, there was a five hour blackout.
  发电厂的疏忽导致停电五小时。