听声词典

back the wrong horse

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基本解释

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英汉例句

    双语例句

  • If you back the wrong horse, you give your support to the losing side in something.
    如果你力挺一批错误的马，你把你的支持给了失利的一方。
  • Publishers, like other people, sometimes reject chances of backing the right horse, and stubbornly back the wrong one.
    像其他人一样，出版商有时拒绝扶植大有前途的作家，而固执地对毫无希望的人大献殷勤。
  • An academic study* has now tried to assemble some facts to test the long-held impression that the media usually back the wrong horse.
    一项学术研究目前已综合一些要素来验证某一长期存在的印象——媒体总是（形如赌马中）“买错马”。

词组短语

    短语

  • back to the wrong horse 估计错误
  • to back the wrong horse 押错宝

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • to make the wrong decision and support a person or action that is later unsuccessful