| 词汇 | backfired |
| 释义 | backfired past simple and past participle ofbackfire backfire verb[ I ] uk /ˌbækˈfaɪər/ us /ˌbækˈfaɪr/ backfireverb[I] (BAD RESULT)(of a plan) to have the opposite result from the one you intended: （计划）产生适得其反的结果 Her plans to make him jealous backfired on her when he started dating her best friend.她原本想让他妒嫉，没想到最后他却和她最好的朋友好上了。 Failing and doing badly abjectly at-risk backbencher balls (something) up be on your beam endsidiom beam blow (someone/something) up bomb egg flog flog a dead horseidiom flop flub flunk out mess running on emptyidiom sclerotic screw screw (something) up the rot sets inidiom backfireverb[I] (ENGINE)(of an engine) to make a loud noise as a result of fuel burning too early: （引擎）发生回火 I was woken by the sound of a truck backfiring.卡车引擎的回火声把我惊醒了。 Machines - Functioning action actuator deactivation faultily faulty fire someone up function as something/someone functionally light operative peg peg out play something up power (something) up refire reset road run tick working Examples of backfiredbackfired In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The concentration on softness and the absence of microscopic life as criteria of purity backfired. Moves to counter potential disloyalty among the troops backfired, giving rise to discontent even where none had previously existed. If a strike by residents were prolonged or if it backfired and resulted in their dismissal, the strike might interfere with their board certification. The tactic of moving outside the bureaucracy backfired. Instead, the government's plan backfired to an extent. In fact, as part of a strategic retreat that was resented by a large segment of its constituency, it may actually have backfired. Attempts by the military to intimidate the peasantry into submission at times backfired. Attempts to appeal to smallholders and the urban middle class, however, backfired. The case backfired when the liberal mayor was accused of gross mismanagement. Benachenhou stresses that policy mistakes before 1993 were so serious that attempts to correct them often backfired. In the event, the plan backfired. But this policy now backfired. The success of this policy, however, backfired. Odd as it may seem to us today, swing identified itself as the avant-garde - or at least it did so until its discursive strategy backfired. In such circumstances, it is scarcely surprising that it backfired. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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