We can not afford to be gauche.

我们不能举止粗鲁。

And words for left give us sinister, gauche, maladroit.

而含有 left 这个含义的词有不详的，笨拙的，不灵巧的。

We are gauche in our efforts to seduce and pitiful in our requests for attention.

我们小心翼翼吸引异性，得到的关注却少得可怜。

What are you doing? Do you realize how gauche it is to open gifts at a party, before dessert?

们干嘛呢 还没有上甜点就把礼物打开了知不知道这样做很没礼貌？

Oh dear, I said the aesthetic for today's party was a mod re-imagining of a traditional American Christmas, not some gauche 1980s nightmare.

哦，天哪，我说过今天派对的美学是对传统美国圣诞节的现代重新想象，而不是 1980 年代的噩梦。

It doesn't matter how highly qualified or brilliant you may be, if you come across as tongue-tied or gauche, your chances of getting a job are pretty small.

不管的资历有多高或有多聪明，如果给人的印象是结巴或笨拙， 找到工作的机会就很小。