backfiring是什么意思？

backfiring

• v. （内燃机等）发生逆火( backfire的现在分词 )，发生回火，（枪炮）向后爆发，发生意外；

例句

• A sudden report rang out -- like the sound of a car backfiring. 突然响起一声爆裂声 —— 像汽车的逆火声.
• The EPA's rules about what constitutes hazardous waste are backfiring against the nationwide recycling effort. 环保署关于有害物质的法规同全国资源回收的工作正好唱反调.
• The engine keeps backfiring all the time. 发动机老是回火.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  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.
  例句
  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！
• VERB
  （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.
  例句
  The car backfired. 车回火了。