| 释义 |
self-defeatingˌself-deˈfeating adjective   - Attempts to stir up nationalistic feeling at such times are bound to be self-defeating.
- It's time to end the self-defeating cycle of overeating and dieting.
- As this diagram suggests, a self-defeating organiza-tional behavior pattern is more than a single misguided strategy or reaction.
- Flagrant disregard for the evidence freely available in libraries at home and abroad was self-defeating.
- In self-defeating organizations, poor performance comes to resemble this sort of eternally perpetuating cycle.
- Members of a self-defeating organiza-tion are, as a result of prior negative experiences, inclined to believe the worst.
- So there you have it: narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.
- The equal opportunities strategy is, the writers claim, likely to be self-defeating.
- They learn to then shift from negative, self-defeating internal dialogue towards positive, more realistic, and confidence-building self-speech.
- Why do the retraining efforts of self-defeating organizations tend to create at least as many difficulties as they resolve?
to have the opposite effect to what was intended► backfire if a plan or action backfires , it is intended to do one thing but instead does the opposite: · His plan to get attention backfired, and instead of being promoted he lost his job.backfire on: · Trying to make your partner jealous by flirting with other people can easily backfire on you. ► self-defeating an action or plan that is self-defeating is not well planned or is badly done, so that it produces the opposite effect from the one intended: · Taxing poor people to pay for hospitals is always self- defeating.· Attempts to stir up nationalistic feeling at such times are bound to be self-defeating. ► counterproductive intended to make something better, but actually making it worse: · Putting very young offenders in prison can be counterproductive.· Constant correction by a teacher is often counterproductive, as the student may become afraid to speak at all. causing even more problems, or causing exactly the same problems and difficulties that you are trying to prevent or deal with:  Constant dieting can be self-defeating. |