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
学英语单词
'seventy
-nomial
adjoint partial differential equation
allowance for sales discount
american alder (alnus incana d.c.)
Andelsbuch
antiphonally
Araqua
are bombing
Augean stables
autosuggest
bachelier process
beautiful music
bios(wildiers 1901)
boiler-suits
Castelltercol
ceramic clay
concurrent engineering
curd meter
current injection circuit
degaussing device
dissimilate
Druyes-les-Belles-Fontaines
dump mooring
ebuccinate
engine alternator
episodic, episodical
equiphase wave surface
fixation of pubic cartilage of woman
formal function
free fall model
gem-
glutathion(e)reductase
graded reader
Guillaume de Grimoard
half-round steel
havin' it
hi-lo check
hibiscus syriacuss
high molecule
house of delegates
hydroxyl ion absorption
indole valeric acid
instantize
intertester
isat-
ishare
jaax
kasprowicz
Kiboga
Las Salas, Embalse de
Latin Averroism
liftie
luttes
manganese-copper-nickel
N-methyltaurine
night light-intensifying sight
occupationally exposed person
ophthalmic solution
Ottersheim
OWG
paint pressure tank
pardonne
past-times
penfluron
pentastoma denticulatum
performeter period signal
pettles
phraseography
pin bearing
place a price on someone
praglit
reactor containment equipment cooling water heat exchanger
remote-indicator rotameter
roller stitcher
rubys
saliniferous
sarisa
schedule of property
self-cleavage
semi-automatic milling machine
sensory radicular neuropathy
shahal
shower caps
stabilizings
stichic
sulfonation reaction
tarmacadamed
three pole disconnector
throwing back
tom-tom
toughed
transforming genes
tuik
ultrasonic digital water level gauge
uncharged polar amino acid
unnaturalistic
voted in
water taking bottle
weaning on
whale facting ship
whitehorne