boomerangs是什么意思？

boomerangs

• n. （澳大利亚）回飞镖( boomerang的名词复数 )，自作自受，伤及原提案者的言论及提议；
• v. （计划）产生事与愿违的结果( boomerang的第三人称单数 )，自食其杲；

例句

• Well, I'd thought of about boomerangs. What do you think? 嗯, 我想谈谈回飞棒, 你觉得 怎么样 ?
• The visitor can ponder over the boomerangs used by aborigines at the time of Cook. 来访者可以琢磨琢磨土著人在库克时期用的回飞镖.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  飞去来器，回力镖（澳大利亚土著人最先使用）
  A boomerang is a curved piece of wood which comes back to you if you throw it in the correct way. Boomerangs were first used by the people who were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there.
• VERB
  （计划）起反作用，使自食其果
  If a plan boomerangs, its result is not the one that was intended and is harmful to the person who made the plan.
  例句
  The trick boomeranged, though... 然而这个花招竟害了自己。 He risks defeat in the referendum which he called, but which threatens to boomerang against him. 他冒着失败的危险进行他所谓的“公投”，但这恐怕会反过来对他不利。