时间:2019-02-07 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课

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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5-cell
above-the-fray
adrenoglumerulotropin(AGTH)
airsides
antibody response
Appalachian fields
arcuate diaphragmatic ligament
be made of ice
body throw test
brachistochrones
broad strokes
buy a pig in a poke
Caldecott Medal
category of module
CAVHF
climb out of
coincide section
compound intersection
continuous flow scintillation counter
contredanses
convenience methods
cooling air stream
counter sample
cutting scrap
dactylaria attenuata
Daidzein-8-C-glucoside
darvocet
data cap
dextro-
dick juices
Dindar, Nahr ad (Dinder Wenz)
electronic computer technology
electrospray interface
energy transition
energy transmission
equivalent noise sideband
expatiates
expugned
festival music
fiber length
flucarbril
gold bullion market
Golyam Mechi, Vrǔkh
graphical tolerance
grooved roll washing machine
Heemrad
hem and he
Henyey track
high-frequency absorber
hotbot
inactive DO-loop
industrial planning
instruction work stack
izala
J.C.D.
Koronowo
Kvamskogen
L-2 test
law-making treaties
lend enchantment to
line of the course
Markhara
maturons
momoirs
motor driven pump
nonsteady state water flow
nuclei thalami
Nukulaelae Atoll
oil filler cap
orthomiella rantaizana
osteolite
pancreatico-duodenal vein
pascal lagged distribution
pilot automatic dead reckoning equipment
pressure setting
priming circuit
pyrimido-
raimond
reactive materials
red decometer
Reumatox
Rowsburg
sift program
slow whistle
smooth-barked
social attachment
Sorbus astateria
sortely
spring bushing
subracial
tapered increaser
teetotalists
thomasin
two-degree of freedom gyroscope
undepreciated
up all night
upper density
vegetal cell
Vincetoxicum negrum
vishwatara
waveguide transmission system
yishuv