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.
這些提供內容的行業(yè)總試圖控制人，而不去接受這個行業(yè)正發(fā)生變化的樣子，而且已經產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，低價為宗旨。但現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.
這一計劃適得其反，日后他記錄下了在蘇聯所見到的“物質與精神的荒漠”，不過待他徹底喪失對波蘭社會主義體制的信仰，又過去了二十年時間。

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.