1N-COUNT 飞去来器,回力镖(澳大利亚土著人最先使用) A boomerang is 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. 飞去来器,回力镖(澳大利亚土著人最先使用)
2VERB (计划)起反作用,使自食其果 If a plan boomerangs, its result is not the one that was intended and is harmful to the person who made the plan. (计划)起反作用,使自食其果
The trick boomeranged, though. [VERB]
然而这个花招竟害了自己。
He risks defeat in the referendum which he called, but which threatens to boomerang against him. [V + on/against]