| 词汇 | backfiring |
| 释义 | backfiring present 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 backfiringbackfiring In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Indirect mechanisms for motivating conservation run a risk of backfiring, to the extent that they are not carefully planned to align commercial and conservation incentives. One could say that his result demonstrates the backfiring of those tactics. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Socialism is thus backfiring on the people because of its poor economic management and its dogmatic cosmopolitanism. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I firmly believe that anti-discrimination measures have a nasty habit of backfiring and themselves becoming discriminatory. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 And that all of that was in my eyes all the time, backfiring all these years... From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He often finds himself building huge machinery, such as roach-catching contraptions, most of the time resulting in them backfiring. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Gunfire can be confused with other sounds that can sound similar, such as firework explosions and cars backfiring. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. I tried to pass if off as a car backfiring, but it kept happening over and over. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Outside, a car is backfiring repeatedly and a marching band is passing by. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Larson was visibly annoyed by his early buzz-in backfiring. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Gunfire acoustics must be distinguished reliably from noises that can sound similar, such as firework explosions and cars backfiring. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Reaching the recruitment center, police began backfiring their motorcycle engines. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These losses were in addition to $4 billion that localities had already paid to unwind backfiring interest rate swaps. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The sounds of airplanes overhead and trucks backfiring as they drove past the studio were covered with appropriate music. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Lines may also be created by "backfiring:" creating small, low-intensity fires using driptorches or flares. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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