self-defeating 弄巧成拙 欲蓋彌彰 反被自己的聰明所誤適得其反。”......“But it is ultimately self-defeating”

 

The temptation to use the Strait of Hormuz “for short-term extraction, through tolls or restrictions”, is understandable, writes Ali Amiri in a guest essay. “But it is ultimately self-defeating”

阿里·阿米里在一篇客座文章中寫道，人們很容易受到誘惑，想要透過徵收通行費或實施限制來利用霍爾木茲海峽進行「短期掠奪」。 “但這最終只會適得其反。”

Opened only since March 2007, the Narrow won a 2008 Guide Michelin award as a bib gourmand, designating good food at moderate prices, moderate for London that is, the dollar willing.


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The Democratic candidates’ self-defeating conflict over health care could ultimately derail efforts at reform.




Mr. Hart's Republican counterpart, Bill McInturff, adds that the guidance Republican lawmakers will take from the findings is "don't blink" from the tough border-security position staked out by the House in negotiations with the more-moderate Senate. Yet that strategy could prove self-defeating, if it sinks prospects for a compromise, because the poll also shows that conservatives will be most upset if Congress doesn't act. The survey of 1,002 adults, conducted June 9-12, has a margin for error of 3.1 percentage points.
2006


self-defeating
adjective弄巧成拙 欲蓋彌彰 反被自己的聰明所誤......
describes something that causes or makes worse the problem it was designed to avoid or solve:
self-defeating regulations
[形]〈行為・計画・議論などが〉（思惑に反して）自滅的な.
自滅