boomerang
英 [ˈbuːməræŋ]
美 [ˈbuːməræŋ]
n. 回力镖,飞去来器(澳大利亚土著人最先用于狩猎)
v. 害人反害己; 自食其果
复数:boomerangs 现在分词:boomeranging 过去式:boomeranged 第三人称单数:boomerangs 过去分词:boomeranged
BNC.36655 / COCA.23526
牛津词典
noun
- 回力镖,飞去来器(澳大利亚土著人最先用于狩猎)
a curved flat piece of wood that you throw and that can fly in a circle and come back to you. Boomerangs were first used by Australian Aborigines as weapons when they were hunting.
verb
- 害人反害己;自食其果
if a plan boomerangs on sb, it hurts them instead of the person it was intended to hurt
柯林斯词典
- 飞去来器,回力镖(澳大利亚土著人最先使用)
Aboomerangis a curved piece of wood which comes back to you if you throw it in the correct way. Boomerangs were first used by the people who were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there. - VERB (计划)起反作用,使自食其果
If a planboomerangs, its result is not the one that was intended and is harmful to the person who made the plan.- The trick boomeranged, though...
然而这个花招竟害了自己。 - He risks defeat in the referendum which he called, but which threatens to boomerang against him.
他冒着失败的危险进行他所谓的“公投”,但这恐怕会反过来对他不利。
- The trick boomeranged, though...
英英释义
noun
- a miscalculation that recoils on its maker
- a curved piece of wood
verb
- return to the initial position from where it came
双语例句
- He risks defeat in the referendum which he called, but which threatens to boomerang against him.
他冒着失败的危险进行他所谓的“公投”,但这恐怕会反过来对他不利。 - The Macao and Hong Kong governments are bracing themselves for the fallout, illustrating how quickly a crisis on Wall Street can affect a Las Vegas Casino company, then boomerang to cities on the other side of the world.
澳门和香港政府正为附带后果做准备,这说明华尔街危机会如何迅速影响一家拉斯维加斯博彩公司,进而波及到世界另一端的城市。 - They hunt game with spears or a curved wooden boomerang.
他们用长矛或木制曲形飞镖猎取野味。 - I will not ask my master to play fetch with a boomerang.
我不会要求主人去跟飞去来器玩。 - This is the boomerang generation, and where most of them will be heading is straight back to their childhood bedrooms.
这是飞去来器的一代,他们中的多数人出校园后将径直回到他们儿时的卧室。 - If one of these children died, this whole plan is liable to boomerang on us.
如果孩子们中有一个死了,这整个计画可能使我们反受其害。 - From Australia, English took the words nugget, boomerang and walkabout-and in fact the whole concept of chain pubs.
英国人从澳洲拿来了炸鸡块、飞去来器和徒步旅行实际上是连锁酒吧的整体概念。 - We remind you that every negative feeling you hold toward another has a boomerang effect.
我们提醒你,每一个你对他人所抱持的负面感觉,都有回力棒的效果。 - I can use it like a boomerang to keep him in line.
到时候,我就可以像丢回力镖一样打他。 - TOKYO ( AFP)-In an unprecedented experiment, a Japanese astronaut has thrown a boomerang in space and confirmed it flies back much like on Earth.
东京(法新社)-在一次前所未有的实验中,日本宇航员在太空中抛出一只回飞棒,结果证实它会和在地球上一样飞自动飞回来。