- 1
Gaucheness is the noun: the awkward, socially quality itself. You can talk about someone’s gaucheness at a formal dinner — the way they keep choosing the wrong fork, or saying too much, not out of but because the room’s quiet rules are still new. It is the same idea as gauche, only now you are naming the trait rather than describing the person. It is a word. In ordinary speech people are more likely to say awkwardness, or just “that was a bit awkward.” Though actually, gaucheness still points at manners and social rules, not at being bad at sport or at .
不得體、舉止上的笨拙
組成gauche + -ness. -ness turns the adjective into a noun that names the quality.
同家族的字
- gauchethe adjective this noun is built from
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gauchenessnoun
- 1
The quality of being gauche; awkwardness.
- An incident at a rally in Ohio last Sunday resembled an excruciating study in social gaucheness, when Vance suggested Democrats might think drinking Diet Mountain Dew, a popular soft drink, was racist, before laughing at his own lame joke; as the audience remained largely silent, Vance laughed awkwardly, saying: “I love you guys.”
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。