boomerangs

英 [ˈbuːməræŋz]

美 [ˈbuːməræŋz]

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
boomerang的第三人称单数和复数

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。

双语例句

• Today, boomerangs are largely used for sport and also decoration.
  今天，飞去来器则被广泛的应用到体育和装饰中。
• In this game you go around hitting kangaroos with boomerangs.
  在这个游戏中你到处打的回飞棒袋鼠。
• But Obama still runs a risk: that his overworked rhetoric loses its power and boomerangs on him.
  但是奥巴马任然冒了风险，那是他强有力的言辞在他身上失去了它的力量和（自食其果）。
• You are playing in the role of a funny kangaroo, who uses his feets strength, tail power, and boomerangs to fight gangsters in the dangerous streets of New York.
  你将扮演一个有趣的袋鼠角色，它可以利用双脚来加强力量，提高能量以及跳出后仍能反弹回原处来与危机重重纽约街头的匪徒进行搏斗。
• The Australian Aborigines originally used boomerangs as weapons.
  澳大利亚的土著人最初将回飞镖用作武器。
• Helping is a positive thing that boomerangs back into your own life.
  这是一个积极的帮助飞镖回自己的生活。
• And it is only the white locals who profit from the tourist industry by peddling Aboriginal cultural artifacts such as didgeridoos and boomerangs.
  白当地居民从土著的文化产物的旅游工业来获取利益，比如迪吉里杜管和回飞棒。
• Returning boomerangs were used only in eastern and western Australia as playthings, in tournament competition, and by hunters to imitate hawks for driving flocks of game birds into nets.
  可飞回的飞标曾在东澳大利亚及西澳大利亚流行，有时作为玩具，用于比赛，有时猎手用它仿真飞鹰，以驱逐鸟群，使之进入网里。
• Its swooping form, which suggests two boomerangs placed side by side, has been compared to a dragon.
  它那迂回的外形看上去像是并排放在一起的两个飞盘，有人也把它比喻为一条龙。
• The bison and boomerangs are a facsimile of a painting in pindal cave near colombres, province of oviedo, spain.
  野牛和弯镖是西班牙奥维多省哥伦布里斯附近品达洞穴里的彩画摹本。