backfired

基本解释

The content industry has tried to control people, without accepting the changing landscape of its industry, and it has backfired on them.
这些提供内容的行业总试图控制人，而不去接受这个行业正发生变化的样子，而且已经产生了事与愿违的情况。
Three years ago, Wal-Mart ruled for convenience, selection and price. But today it is losing customers and revenue, and smarting from decisions that backfired.
三年前，沃尔玛以方便，精选，低价为宗旨。但现在她正在失去顾客以及收入，并且正痛苦于适得其反的决定。
That backfired. He wrote later of the “material and spiritual desolation” he saw there, though it took two decades for his faith in Poland’s socialist system to erode entirely.
这一计划适得其反，日后他记录下了在苏联所见到的“物质与精神的荒漠”，不过待他彻底丧失对波兰社会主义体制的信仰，又过去了二十年时间。

But,as it took just a few weeks, it shows that they are concerned and the whole project backfired and they are going to.

Understandably, despite EA intending this as a polite gesture to the community, the idea backfired dramatically.
ENGADGET: EA addresses LGBT issues in gaming in first ever 'Full Spectrum' event
Bristol, not Pfizer, funded that study, which backfired (see: " Bristol Study Proves Rival Drug Better").
FORBES: Magazine Article
That feature--seemingly designed to play up the privacy threat of Google's huge collection of user data--backfired.
FORBES: Magazine Article

If a plan or project backfires, it has the opposite result to the one that was intended.
When a motor vehicle or its engine backfires, it produces an explosion in the exhaust pipe.