misfires

英 [ˌmɪsˈfaɪəz]

美 [ˌmɪsˈfaɪərz]

v.  不奏效; 不起作用; 不起动; 打不着火; 不发火; 射不出子弹
misfire的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 未奏效;未获得预期效果;失败
  If a planmisfires, it goes wrong and does not have the results that you intend it to have.
  1. Some of their policies had misfired.
     他们的一些政策已经失败了。
• VERB (引擎)不发火，不启动
  If an enginemisfires, the fuel fails to start burning when it should.
  1. The boat's engine misfired after he tried to start it up.
     他试着启动船的引擎，但没发动起来。
• VERB (枪)不能开火，射不出子弹
  If a gunmisfires, the bullet is not sent out as it should be when the gun is fired.
  1. The gun misfired after one shot and jammed.
     开过一枪后，枪哑火卡住了。

双语例句

• They probably left the misfires in the muck.
  他们可能把没点着的落在泥里了。
• For all her talents, the former First Lady is not new-and leaning on her husband's popularity whenever her campaign misfires underlines the fact.
  尽管她才华横溢，但这位前第一夫人并非新面孔；并且，只要其竞选活动失势，她便会借助其丈夫的人气，也突显了这一事实。
• If the motor cycle goes over a bump, the engine misfires.
  如果摩托车驶过路面隆起之处，引擎就会熄火。
• Other than that, faults with the ECU ( the engine's electronic brain) can cause misfires, particularly on early cars.
  除此之外，与ECU（发动机的电子大脑）故障可能导致擦枪走火，特别是早期的汽车。
• Other misfires are for cars that seemed initially appealing but turned out to be deeply flawed.
  还有些轿车一开始看起来很吸引人，后来才发现它们存在重大缺陷。