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 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。
• They hunt game with spears or a curved wooden boomerang.
  他们用长矛或木制曲形飞镖猎取野味。
• Boomerang nebula-the coolest place in the universe?
  宇宙中最冷的地方？
• The boomerang's popularity as a souvenir helped transform it into a national symbol and it has branded a range of products from brandy, to butter, cigarette papers and flour as distinctly Australian.
  作为炙手可热的纪念品，回旋镖摇身一变成为澳大利亚的国家标志，并相继出现在一系列产品的商标上，包括白兰地、黄油、香烟壳和面粉，从而成为澳大利亚特色产品的标志。
• The boomerang kid phenomenon has become a social problem on a nationwide scale.
  啃老族现象已成为全国性的社会问题。
• This week's special at Boomerang!
  本周的特别在回旋镖！
• He learns that buck-passing acts as a boomerang.
  他知道，推诿责任往往会自食其果。
• However, the physical education exercises are freely Boomerang, which is the side for Luke.
  不过，这次体育课是自由练习回旋镖，这对于鲁克来说就是小菜。
• 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。
• When Apocalypse Weekend was released as the add-on for Postal 2, it added the new Boomerang Machete, Sledgehammer, and Scythe.
  当启示周末是发表当做那数据片为邮政的2，它附加的那新回飞棒弯刀，大槌，和长柄的大镰刀。