| 词汇 | self-defeating |
| 释义 | self-defeating adjective uk /ˌself.dɪˈfiː.tɪŋ/ us /ˌself.dɪˈfiː.t̬ɪŋ/ used to describe something that causes or makes worse the problem it was designed to avoid or solve: 自我挫败的；适得其反的；弄巧成拙的 self-defeating regulations适得其反的规定 Useless and futile adrift aimless aimlessly aimlessness airy-fairy fruitless fruitlessly fruitlessness futile futilely negate negation no goodidiom non-viable nugatory unrealistic unrealistically unseriousness until you are blue in the faceidiom unviability self-defeating | American Dictionaryself-defeating adjective[ not gradable ] us/ˌself·dɪˈfi·t̬ɪŋ/ done in a way that keeps you from succeeding: He raises the issue in a way that is self-defeating. Examples of self-defeatingself-defeating First, its solution to the existence of disagreements, namely giving precedence to the right to political participation, seems self-defeating. Stability is not only hard to g rasp, its pursuit is self-defeating. In social dilemmas, game-theoretic rationality is self-defeating, and experimental players frequently violate it. Even from a normative point of view, rationality is self-defeating in social dilemmas. Policy that has overlooked the complexity of ecology may prove to be self-defeating. The force of the son's denial of his fortune serves as a compelling response to the self-defeating reanimations of dust and death. This rip-off of the old feminist slogan that the personal is political is, however, totally self-defeating. The patient is encouraged to talk about feelings, and to feel understood, rather than to discharge them in self-defeating ways. He suggested that the intention to borrow, like that of inventing ritual, is self-defeating. Thus, this set of economic policies, taken alone, would be self-defeating. If all can do it, it may be self-defeating: no one gains a height advantage if everyone increases in height. The discretional path toward economic reform is self-defeating for it fails at establishing the long-term frame that only legal institutions can provide. However, as the experience of the past several decades illustrates, this policy will ultimately be self-defeating despite any short-term benets that the government may gain. The nationalist strategy is, from a civic patriotic point of view, not only morally objectionable but also tactically self-defeating. Such representations were self-defeating as prescriptive employee literature inadvertently contributed to the stereotypical perception it sought to refute. See all examples of self-defeating 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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