English Dictionary

backfiring

noun

A failure that leads to further misfortune. / The occurrence of a backfire.

His plan to start a business without any experience ended up backfiring and he lost all his savings.

意味（1）

A failure that leads to further misfortune.

意味（2）

The occurrence of a backfire.

Backfiring in mercury arc rectifiers has now been pinpointed as the primary cause of the Glasgow transformer failures. […] The chief causes of rectifier backfiring in the Glasgow units were overheating or unfavourable anode/cathode temperature differential; it has proved possible to overcome these, although occasional backfires do still occur.