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Backfire Plan Word Car Makes Explosion Exhaust Verb

英语单词 backfire
英美音标 英 [ˌbæk'faɪə(r)] 美 [ˌbæk'faɪər]
中文释义 v.(指内燃机等)逆火;适得其反;产生事与愿违的结果
n.逆火;后爆的巨大响声
英语例句 (1) The car/engine backfired noisily.
(2) Even our most carefully laid plans may backfire.
(3) A too-strict eating plan will backfire.
中文例句 (1) 那汽车[发动机]发生逆火引起爆鸣。
(2) 甚至我们的最周密安排的计划也可能产生适得其反的结果。
(3) 太严格的饮食计划会让你得不偿失。
vocabulary简明 Use the word backfire when you talk about the sound a car makes when a small explosion in its exhaust system pops — sometimes as loudly as a gunshot.
vocabulary扩展 Hearing a car's backfire can make you jump, because it makes a sharp, shot-like sound. A backfire is usually caused by unburned fuel, and it can be accompanied by a burst of flame and a brief loss of power in the vehicle, as well as a fairly loud noise. The word comes from an American English term that originally referred to a fire deliberately set to slow the progress of a prairie or forest fire.
柯林斯解释
1
[VERB 动词]事与愿违;适得其反 If a plan or project backfires, it has the opposite result to the one that was intended.
  [V]
  [V on/against n]
  • The President's tactics could backfire...

    总统的策略可能会适得其反。

  • It all backfired on me!

    一切都与我的愿望背道而驰!

2
[VERB 动词](车辆或其发动机)逆火,回火 When a motor vehicle or its engine backfires, it produces an explosion in the exhaust pipe.
  [V]
  • The car backfired.

    车回火了。

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