場景:化肥于民于地有害無益
例句: Chemical Fertiliser using may boost yields at present but will and surely will be counterproductive in the long run for human being and the land as well.
詞:counterproductive
英英釋義:achieving the opposite result of the one that you want
“counterproductive”是形容詞,從它的構(gòu)詞(counter + productive)可以看得出它的意思是“產(chǎn)生相反效果的、事與愿違的、適得其反的”。它會常常修飾政策、策略、規(guī)則、措施等詞。在寫解決方法類的文章時(shí)可以用到這個(gè)詞。
管教孩子本意是好的,也是必需的,但如果對孩子過分嚴(yán)格,不給他們?nèi)魏巫杂珊蛡€(gè)人空間,結(jié)果可能會適得其反。這時(shí)候我們就可以說:
1. Discipling children is well-meaning and necessary, but being too strict with them may be counterproductive.
有的人認(rèn)為幫助弱勢群體最好的辦法是給予直接的經(jīng)濟(jì)援助,但這可能并不會產(chǎn)生理想的效果,最好的方法應(yīng)該是通過公平的制度來實(shí)現(xiàn)。我們就可以說:
2.Giving money to the disadvantaged group seems to be a panacea, but in truth it can be troublingly counterproductive.
《經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人》在一篇關(guān)于垃圾定價(jià)的文章中有這么一句:
3. Without carbon pricing, subsidies to renewables can be counterproductive.
也就是說可再生能源的補(bǔ)貼要想達(dá)到理想的預(yù)期,必須要有合理的碳定價(jià)才行。