时间:2019-02-07 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


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汽车引擎燃烧不顺畅,从排气管排出的异常爆响,可以叫做backfire。



另外,发生森林大火,火势失去控制,有一种颇特殊的灭火方法也叫backfire。方法是在火势延烧的方向的前方,除了清出一条防火巷(fire alley)之外,并且引燃另一场火,让它烧回去。两股火势碰头时,也就是燃料烧尽而不得不熄灭的时候。可是这种方法有它的危险性,就是新点燃的火要能完全掌握,场地和环境等要整理得很彻底。不然就很可能把一场火灾变成两场火灾。


Backfire最常见的解释就是“弄巧成拙,”就是事情没有按照原定计划发展,反而收到反效果。这一重意思来自于以火灭火的backfire,却越烧越旺的结果。因此,backfire最常和plan之类的字一起出现。


另外有一个构造很象的字:backlash,表示反扑,好象你去鞭打(lash)对方,结果对方起而反扑,夺去鞭子反过来鞭打你一样。


The G.O.P. hopes to gain votes by attacking her as a radical 1 feminist 2 who prefers the boardroom to the kitchen. But the ploy 3 could backfire by alienating 4 working women.


共和党希望借攻击希拉里来获得选票,把她说成是激进的女权运动者,不爱厨房,只爱董事会。可是这种攻击伎俩可能回让职业妇女反感,而收到反效果。



n.激进份子,原子团,根号;adj.根本的,激进的,彻底的
  • The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
  • She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。
adj.主张男女平等的,女权主义的
  • She followed the feminist movement.她支持女权运动。
  • From then on,feminist studies on literature boomed.从那时起,男女平等受教育的现象开始迅速兴起。
n.花招,手段
  • I think this is just a government ploy to deceive the public.我认为这只是政府欺骗公众的手段。
  • Christmas should be a time of excitement and wonder,not a cynical marketing ploy.圣诞节应该是兴奋和美妙的时刻,而不该是一种肆无忌惮的营销策略。
v.使疏远( alienate的现在分词 );使不友好;转让;让渡(财产等)
  • The phenomena of alienation are widespread. Sports are also alienating. 异化现象普遍存在,体育运动也不例外。 来自互联网
  • How can you appeal to them without alienating the mainstream crowd? 你是怎么在不疏忽主流玩家的情况下吸引住他们呢? 来自互联网
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acoustic filters
adrenotrophin
aluminium winding foil
angiocentric myofibroblastic tumor
asomata
atoll reef
bassackward
be sham
beach pollutant
beam-folding
bedford-stuyvesant
Benson's solubility coefficient
bioelectric potentials
brassica oleracea acephalas
brick sort
calafatite (alunite)
charnes
child-bearer
circular nut with lock groove
clinosequence
clock ga(u)ge
coefficient of impact
cold working
component element
composition of probability
compressed file pointer
continuity clause
correctional rehabilitations
crop tree
daledh
decomplexifications
differentiable vector field
diffuse illumination
DIX connector plug
downbows
Ehrenberg(Rhön)
erecting telescope
ESDA
extreme mean
feculite
fixing skeleton
floating axis
futanari
genus callithrixes
geologic informatics
give away something
glass fibre laser
greased it in
hookshop
hydrogenion concentration value
hydrophthalmos posterior
instruction medium
jehoash
keloidal blastomycosis
lithia mica
lower side-band
magnesium selenide
Mahembe
mail telegram
nitrile butadiene rubber
ordinary temperature thermistor
outside-rotating structure
palaeotypal rock
palletized ship
pinaverium bromide
potchky
prehypertension
progressive TV
PSEUDOCHROMIDAE
pubococcygeus
Queimados
quintuplets
radio-isophote
rejoice over
rent strike
retrigged
rigid spine
Saussurea bracteata
secondary axes
sermonizer
shifting winding reel
skalling
soil-less
solanines
standardized international signs and symbols
static moment
stochastic allocation
subtropical forest zones
sweetening of the soil
tail section
three digit display
tigas
toolter
tubal occlusion
unforged
upbore
velifical
Villeneuve-Saint-Georges
vossler
weight-control
wing point
zivota