backfire是什么意思

双语用例

• Conversely, nonlocals' use of please backfires because acting "proper" asser ts superiority in terms not locally condoned.

• The concentration on softness and the absence of microscopic life as criteria of purity backfired.

• In such circumstances, it is scarcely surprising that it backfired.

• They intended to enter the markets to take advantage of our tragedy, but found that raising the issue backfired on them at home.

• The last time he did so, it backfired in his face.

• A car draws into a road check point and as it is leaving it backfires.

• What is particularly frustrating for me is that the promised election awareness advertisement has spectacularly backfired.

• I am sure that he appreciates the danger of irony because it often backfires; he will learn from that experience.