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，她的男表亲不希望她有挫折。
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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.
应用表明，该系统简单、实用，能及时为用户提供准确信息，能动地减少了事故发生。
One Georgetown player shrugged off the contretemps. "Man, it's just a game, " he said.
一名乔治城球员轻松地说道：“不过只是一场比赛而已。”

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