自现象级英语
COUNTERPRODUCTIVE
1. 英英释义:achieving the opposite result of the one that you want
例句:Disciplining children is well-meaning and necessary, but being too strict with them may be counterproductive.
2. 为什么选这个词?
“counterproductive”是形容词,从它的构词(counter + productive)可以看得出它的意思是“产生相反效果的、事与愿违的、适得其反的”。它会常常修饰政策、策略、规则、措施等词。在写解决方法类的文章时可以用到这个词。
管教孩子本意是好的,也是必需的,但如果对孩子过分严格,不给他们任何自由和个人空间,结果可能会适得其反。这时候我们就可以说: Disciplining children is well-meaning and necessary, but being too strict with them may be counterproductive.
有的人认为帮助弱势群体最好的办法是给予直接的经济援助,但这可能并不会产生理想的效果,最好的方法应该是通过公平的制度来实现。我们就可以说: Giving money to the disadvantaged group seems to be a panacea, but in truth it can be troublingly counterproductive.
《经济学人》在一篇关于垃圾定价的文章中有这么一句: Without carbon pricing, subsidies to renewables can be counterproductive.也就是说可再生能源的补贴要想达到理想的预期,必须要有合理的碳定价才行。
个人拓展:
释义:having an opposite effect to the one that was wanted, and therefore harmful
/counterproductive to sth/ It is counterproductive to do sth
His uncontrollable anger is very counterproductive to his attempt at saving his marriage.
背诵:
Violence as a means to achieve a goal is counterproductive. –W.E. Brock
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