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

• Our plans backfired at the last moment.
  我们的计划在最后关头失败了。
• His scheme backfired and he lost money.
  他的计划招来相反的结果，他赔钱了。
• That plan might have backfired for companies like Wal-Mart, where dozens of customers complained that items weren't available for pickup in stores by the promised date.
  这项计划对沃尔玛这样的公司可能带来了事与愿违的结果。在沃尔玛，数十名顾客抱怨说，在该公司承诺的日期前他们无法在店内自提所购物品。
• Engaging 80/ 20 thinking appears, if anything, to have backfired on phorm.
  与80/20thinking合作似乎（如果有的话）对phorm产生了反效果。
• Unfortunately, those tactics backfired.
  不幸的是，那些战术产生反效果。
• 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。
• But this backfired when the LTTE turned on them.
  但是事与愿违LTTE攻击他们。
• I thought a motorcycle had backfired. I looked to my left.
  我以为电单车出故障，向左一望。
• 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。