boomerang

英 [ˈbuːməræŋ]

美 [ˈbuːməræŋ]

n.  回力镖，飞去来器(澳大利亚土著人最先用于狩猎)
v.  害人反害己; 自食其果

复数：boomerangs　现在分词：boomeranging　过去式：boomeranged　第三人称单数：boomerangs　过去分词：boomeranged　

BNC.36655 / COCA.23526

牛津词典

noun

• 回力镖，飞去来器（澳大利亚土著人最先用于狩猎）
  a curved flat piece of wood that you throw and that can fly in a circle and come back to you. Boomerangs were first used by Australian Aborigines as weapons when they were hunting.

verb

• 害人反害己；自食其果
  if a plan boomerangs on sb, it hurts them instead of the person it was intended to hurt

柯林斯词典

• 飞去来器，回力镖（澳大利亚土著人最先使用）
  Aboomerangis 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 planboomerangs, its result is not the one that was intended and is harmful to the person who made the plan.
  1. The trick boomeranged, though...
     然而这个花招竟害了自己。
  2. 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。

英英释义

noun

• a miscalculation that recoils on its maker
  Synonym:backfire
• a curved piece of wood
  Synonym:throwing stickthrow stick

verb

• return to the initial position from where it came

双语例句

• He learns that buck-passing acts as a boomerang.
  他知道，推诿责任往往会自食其果。
• 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。
• Boomerang: Curved throwing stick used chiefly by the aborigines of Australia for hunting and warfare.
  飞标：弯曲形投掷尖刺武器。澳大利亚原住民多在狩猎及战争中使用之。
• I can use it like a boomerang to keep him in line.
  到时候，我就可以像丢回力镖一样打他。
• From Australia, English took the words nugget, boomerang and walkabout-and in fact the whole concept of chain pubs.
  英国人从澳洲拿来了炸鸡块、飞去来器和徒步旅行实际上是连锁酒吧的整体概念。
• If Damascus had a hand in this murder, as many Lebanese suspect, it had a boomerang effect on Lebanon's politics.
  如果大马士革真的如许多黎巴嫩人所怀疑的那样，在这起谋杀事件中插了一手，就会在黎巴嫩的政局中产生反噬效应。
• Boomerang nebula-the coolest place in the universe?
  宇宙中最冷的地方？
• The boomerang child returned home to live with his parents after graduating from the university.
  这个啃老族在大学毕业之后，回到家中与父母住在一起。
• I will not ask my master to play fetch with a boomerang.
  我不会要求主人去跟飞去来器玩。
• TOKYO ( AFP)-In an unprecedented experiment, a Japanese astronaut has thrown a boomerang in space and confirmed it flies back much like on Earth.
  东京（法新社）-在一次前所未有的实验中，日本宇航员在太空中抛出一只回飞棒，结果证实它会和在地球上一样飞自动飞回来。