backfired

基本解釋

The content industry has tried to control people, without accepting the changing landscape of its industry, and it has backfired on them.
這些提供內(nèi)容的行業(yè)總試圖控制人，而不去接受這個(gè)行業(yè)正發(fā)生變化的樣子，而且已經(jīng)產(chǎn)生了事與愿違的情況。
Three years ago, Wal-Mart ruled for convenience, selection and price. But today it is losing customers and revenue, and smarting from decisions that backfired.
三年前，沃爾瑪以方便，精選，低價(jià)為宗旨。但現(xiàn)在她正在失去顧客以及收入，并且正痛苦于適得其反的決定。
That backfired. He wrote later of the “material and spiritual desolation” he saw there, though it took two decades for his faith in Poland’s socialist system to erode entirely.
這一計(jì)劃適得其反，日后他記錄下了在蘇聯(lián)所見到的“物質(zhì)與精神的荒漠”，不過待他徹底喪失對波蘭社會(huì)主義體制的信仰，又過去了二十年時(shí)間。

But,as it took just a few weeks, it shows that they are concerned and the whole project backfired and they are going to.

Understandably, despite EA intending this as a polite gesture to the community, the idea backfired dramatically.
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Bristol, not Pfizer, funded that study, which backfired (see: " Bristol Study Proves Rival Drug Better").
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That feature--seemingly designed to play up the privacy threat of Google's huge collection of user data--backfired.
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If a plan or project backfires, it has the opposite result to the one that was intended.
When a motor vehicle or its engine backfires, it produces an explosion in the exhaust pipe.