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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He bought a boomerang made in France.
  他买了个法国制造的回飞棒。
• The Macao and Hong Kong governments are bracing themselves for the fallout, illustrating how quickly a crisis on Wall Street can affect a Las Vegas Casino company, then boomerang to cities on the other side of the world.
  澳门和香港政府正为附带后果做准备，这说明华尔街危机会如何迅速影响一家拉斯维加斯博彩公司，进而波及到世界另一端的城市。
• 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。
• The trick boomeranged, though
  然而这个花招竟害了自己。
• If one of these children died, this whole plan is liable to boomerang on us.
  如果孩子们中有一个死了，这整个计画可能使我们反受其害。
• 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。
• 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。