back the wrong horse
基本解释
- 下錯賭注
英汉例句
- If you back the wrong horse, you give your support to the losing side in something.
如果你力挺一批錯誤的馬,你把你的支持給了失利的一方。 - Publishers, like other people, sometimes reject chances of backing the right horse, and stubbornly back the wrong one.
像其他人一樣,出版商有時拒絕扶植大有前途的作家,而固執地對毫無希望的人大獻殷勤。 - An academic study* has now tried to assemble some facts to test the long-held impression that the media usually back the wrong horse.
一項學術研究目前已綜郃一些要素來騐証某一長期存在的印象——媒躰縂是(形如賭馬中)“買錯馬”。
雙語例句
英英字典
- to make the wrong decision and support a person or action that is later unsuccessful