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

• The girls had made three crucial slip-ups.
  这些女孩犯下了3个重大的错误。
• 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。
• We cannot afford another slip-up like this one.
  像这样的差错我们再犯不得了。
• This evidence may not be a slip-up.
  这个证据可能不是偶然留下的。
• "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。”
• They did because of a monumental slip-up in his second event of those Olympics, the men's three-position.
  他们的相遇要归功于他在那届奥运会的第二场比赛&男子三姿赛中一次有名的失误。
• 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。
• Nemanja Vidic expressed his disappointment after United's fourth league defeat of the season to Aston Villa meant they failed to capitalise on Chelsea's slip-up earlier in the day.
  在经历了第4场联赛失利之后维迪奇表达了自己的失望，曼联没能利用切尔西早些时候没能取胜的机会。
• 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。
• It will be hard to avoid a slip-up on one of those crucial goals, perhaps leading to a spiral of woe.
  政府将很难避免在这些关键目标中的某一个上失手，也许引发接二连三的困境。