contretemps

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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。
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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.
應(yīng)用表明，該系統(tǒng)簡單、實(shí)用，能及時爲(wèi)用戶提供準(zhǔn)確信息，能動地減少了事故發(fā)生。
One Georgetown player shrugged off the contretemps. "Man, it's just a game, " he said.
一名喬治城球員輕松地說道：“不過衹是一場比賽而已。”

Al-Alam beamed suspiciously instantaneous accounts of the contretemps to viewers in Iraq and elsewhere.
ECONOMIST: The Iranians are blowing hot and cold in Iraq
Marshall is now on a counterattack in a juicy contretemps that serves up lessons for families grappling with wealth transfer.
FORBES: The Father, the Son and High Society
This particular contretemps is over the design for a memorial for Dwight Eisenhower.
FORBES: Why Ike? Was He Such a Great Leader That He Deserves a Memorial?

a small argument or unlucky event, often happening in public and causing social embarrassment