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

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。

noun

verb

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。
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。
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。
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。
Wow, look, a boomerang, right in the middle of the South China Sea!
快看，一只大型回力棒，就躺在我国南海海中央！
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。
This is the boomerang generation, and where most of them will be heading is straight back to their childhood bedrooms.
这是飞去来器的一代，他们中的多数人出校园后将径直回到他们儿时的卧室。
He learns that buck-passing acts as a boomerang.
他知道，推诿责任往往会自食其果。
Your penis is shaped like a boomerang.
小弟弟外形像个回力棒。