backfired
英 [ˌbækˈfaɪəd]
美 [ˌbækˈfaɪərd]
v. 产生事与愿违的不良(或危险)后果; 逆火; 回火
backfire的过去分词和过去式
柯林斯词典
- VERB 事与愿违;适得其反
If a plan or projectbackfires, it has the opposite result to the one that was intended.- The President's tactics could backfire...
总统的策略可能会适得其反。 - It all backfired on me!
一切都与我的愿望背道而驰!
- The President's tactics could backfire...
- VERB (车辆或其发动机)逆火,回火
When a motor vehicle or its enginebackfires, it produces an explosion in the exhaust pipe.- The car backfired.
车回火了。
- The car backfired.
双语例句
- His scheme backfired and he lost money.
他的计划招来相反的结果,他赔钱了。 - But the tournament backfired badly.
但这场比赛却起到了反效果。 - The reforms backfired because policy makers treated the countryside too much like the cities, he says.
他认为改革的事与愿违,是因为决策者对待乡村的方式与对待城市过于类似。 - Our plans backfired at the last moment.
我们的计划在最后关头失败了。 - The experiment backfired and actually destroyed parts of their own related star system.
实验发生逆火,竟然毁灭了他们自己与太阳系连结的一部份。 - Whatever now happens, it is clear that Mr Papandreou's risky gamble has backfired.
无论现在发生什么,很显然帕潘德里欧的赌博行为使他尝到了代价。 - But this backfired when the LTTE turned on them.
但是事与愿违LTTE攻击他们。 - Like all entrepreneurs, Mr Diamond has chalked up a litany of daring moves over the years-a few have backfired, but most have paid off.
与所有企业家一样,戴蒙德这些年来进行了一系列冒险活动有些亏了钱,但多数都获得了回报。 - His typical bravado backfired in this case.
他典型的瞎逞强做法这次终于搬起石头砸了自己的脚。 - Its attempt to stymie the initiative by persuading other western nations to boycott the bank has backfired.
美国试图说服其他西方国家抵制这家银行,从而阻挠这项计划,结果却事与愿违。