Beyond a certain level, extra effort seems to be self-defeating.

超过一定水平后，额外的努力似乎会弄巧成拙。

But to extend an arm's-length approach to ordinary research would be self-defeating.

但是，将保持距离的方法延伸到普通的研究将会弄巧成拙。

Right. I mean, today our whole goal was to impress you. We made fools of ourselves.

对啊，比如我们今天本来的目标是要给你留下好印象，结果弄巧成拙。

Even well-meaning attempts to sugarcoat the truth are self-defeating, because they spread mistrust, rumours and, ultimately, fear.

即便是善意粉饰真相的企图也会弄巧成拙，因为粉饰会传播不信、，最终是恐惧。

And it can even be self defeating.

它甚至可能弄巧成拙。

It's easy to make things worse.

很容易弄巧成拙。

Now, sometimes we get stuck in a cynical and self-defeating narrative.

现在，有时我们会陷入愤世嫉俗和弄巧成拙的叙述中。

Many economists believe this is a silly and ultimately self-defeating policy.

许多经济学家认为这是一项愚蠢且最终弄巧成拙的政策。

Former President Obama criticized the decision as " cruel" and " self-defeating."

前总统奥巴马批评这一决定是“残忍的”和“弄巧成拙的”。

Or we could take the threat seriously enough that it becomes a self-defeating prophecy.

或者我们可以认真对待这个威胁，以至于它变成一个弄巧成拙的预。

He is also worried that those studio execs don't even realize that they are being self-defeating.

他还担心那些工作室高管甚至没有意识到他们正在弄巧成拙。

You know I do try to do everything right, and sometimes I just get it wrong.

你也知道我尽量让一切都运转正常，但有时候我却弄巧成拙。

But desperate efforts to induce creativity can be self-defeating, in the same way that telling yourself that you must get to sleep is bound to keep you awake.

但是，不顾一切地激发创造力的努力可能会弄巧成拙，就像告诉自己必须睡觉一定会让你保持清醒一样。

In her book " The Long Win" , Cath Bishop, a former Olympian turned consultant, describes how a rigid focus on winning can be self-defeating whether you are in a singlet or a suit.

前奥运会选手、现在从事咨询的凯思·毕晓普在她的书《漫长的胜利》中描述了，无论是穿着运动衫还是西装，过于执着地关注胜利可能会弄巧成拙。

Formed by a world of  irrational, frequently self-defeating racism, Rhodes formulated a capitalistic, industrialized  form of racism – which was perfectly capable of respecting Black Africans as individual actors, whilst engineering the cultural supremacy of the 'Anglo-Saxon race'.

罗兹由一个充满非理性、经常弄巧成拙的种族主义的世界组成，他制定了一种资本主义的、工业化的种族主义形式——它完全能够尊重非洲黑人作为个体行为者，同时打造“盎格鲁-撒克逊种族” 的文化至上地位。