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.
  1. The President's tactics could backfire...
     总统的策略可能会适得其反。
  2. It all backfired on me!
     一切都与我的愿望背道而驰！
• 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.
  1. The car backfired.
     车回火了。

双语例句

• But this confidence building measure seems to have backfired.
  但这一旨在重建市场信心的措施似乎适得其反。
• The plan backfired, and the retailer lost some of its loyal customer base as a result.
  可惜事与愿违，此举最终导致公司失去了一部分忠实客户。
• 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。
• The car backfired.
  车回火了。
• But both tricks have now backfired, by persuading rich-country participants that, rather than boosting their own economies, they were sacrificing their national interests to those of foreigners.
  但是，现在由于说服了富裕国家的与会者他们不是在推动本国经济的发展，而是在牺牲国家利益去照顾外国人的利益，两种把戏都产生了适得其反的结果。
• 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。
• Whatever the reason, the choice backfired, as history would have suggested.
  无论原因如何，这个选择失败了，与历史记录相符。
• 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。
• Trade sanctions on China had backfired.
  美国针对中国的贸易制裁产生了反作用。
• Unfortunately, those tactics backfired.
  不幸的是，那些战术产生反效果。