backfires

英 [ˌbækˈfaɪəz]

美 [ˌbækˈfaɪərz]

v.  产生事与愿违的不良(或危险)后果; 逆火; 回火
backfire的第三人称单数

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

• Nor do its shareholders have a claim to clemency, or other official support, when their risk-taking backfires no matter who else gets lucky.
  在它们由于冒险行为自作自受时，其股东也没有权利要求仁慈或政府的其它支持不论在其他人中，谁获得了这样的好运。
• If it backfires, it could bedevil efforts to contain public spending.
  若计划遭遇不测，为控制政府开支所做的努力将功亏一篑。
• The problem is, it often backfires, especially when the girls go too far too fast.
  问题是，它常常事与愿违，尤其当女孩们做得太过、太急于求成时。
• Federal and state entities have since relied on private companies to clear brush, light backfires, and fulfill an increasingly diverse array of support roles.
  此后，联邦政府和州政府便靠私有公司来清理灌木丛和监控燃烧。
• The new pricing strategy backfires, and our marketing director gets fired.
  新的价格策略适得其反，我们的市场总监也被炒掉了。
• Yet another reason why ghosting on breakfast or forgoing other meals throughout the day backfires on you.
  这也是为什么你一天中不吃早餐或其他餐点却适得其反的原因。
• If it backfires, there'll be no fallout on you.
  万一有什么闪失，不会让你背黑锅。
• The combination of telling individuals that tobacco kills you and trying to intensify that fear with disgust-evoking images backfires.
  告诉大家吸烟会致命的同时，又试图用让人恶心的图片加深大家的恐惧，效果适得其反。
• On the other hand, if a pair of applications is taking turns updating the dispenser, perhaps as some kind of load balancing, that remembered state backfires on us.
  另一方面，如果两个应用程序轮流更新分发器对象，保留的计数器状态就导致不好的结果。
• A great machine is built to do this, but backfires and kills most of the city.
  一部巨大的机械被用来完成该任务，但是回火确杀死了众多市民。