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认识到自己弄巧成拙，我就试着去纠正错误。Perceiving myself in a blunder, I attempted to correct it.

不过，我们很快发现，其实大部分人都弄巧成拙。As we soon discovered, though, most people can't carry it off.

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然后，我们会去试探、去考验、去折磨，最后，弄巧成拙。Then, we will go to try and test, torture, and finally, self-defeating.

那些过份追求有趣、花巧、诱人的标题往往弄巧成拙。Headlines that try too hard to be funny, clever, or gripping often fail.

哥哥大招有智力缺陷，往往弄巧成拙。Elder brother big move has intellective drawback, often outsmart oneself.

想要做万无一失的设想是不可能的，因为蠢蛋都太天才了，先知只会弄巧成拙。It's impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

对守护天使的蹩脚设计弄巧成拙，从一开始就注定这部电影要失败。The ill-advised conceit of the guardian angel dooms the film from the start.

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千万不要毫无对象和准备地求变求异，从而弄巧成拙。Do not prepared to change without objects and divergent, and thus self-defeating.

但加息将会吸引更多热钱，这在一定程度上会弄巧成拙。But higher rates could attract more hot money, which would be partly self-defeating.

去谴责参议院或者美国，是不公平的——甚至会弄巧成拙。Blaming the Senate, or the United States, is unfair -- and potentially self-defeating.

自然在告诉我们，我们现有的经济模式是危险的，会弄巧成拙。And nature is telling us that our current economic model is dangerous and self-defeating.

按照特纳的看法，每一项科技的努力，都深受弄巧成拙的“解决方案”之困扰。According to Tenner, every technological endeavor is riddled with "solutions" that backfire.

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一边是对市场变化做出的合理应对，而另一边就是弄巧成拙的交易。One is a reasonable response to a challenging market. The other is a self-defeating trade-off.

若信贷质量进一步下降,或经济走强利率上调,这可能弄巧成拙.This could backfire if credit quality slides further, or if the economy strengthens and rates rise.

丹瑞知道，如果自己对各少数民族武装组织施压过重，那么反而会适得其反、弄巧成拙，并且在军队内部也可能会发生兵变。If he presses too hard on the ethnic armies it will backfire, and there will be a mutiny among the ranks.

相比之下，香槟是不错的选择，但是要选择一个不太酸的以避免弄巧成拙引起消化不良。Champagne is a better bet, but choose a less acidic one, lest exotic Kama Sutra-style acts cause indigestion.

因为反对赤色分子的人常常与极右派共枕而眠，因此对于极右分子的审查会弄巧成拙。Scrutiny of right-wing extremists would have been self-defeating, as red-hunters were often in bed with the far right.

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所有这些抽象都是以复杂性为代价的，如果抽象过度，可能会彻底地弄巧成拙。All of this abstraction comes at a cost of complexity, and if abstraction is taken far enough, it can get downright ugly.

通常这是由于当权者们的高压手段并且开始的暴行，这是弄巧成拙的行为，仅仅只是在怂恿报复。Often it is the authorities that are heavy handed and start violence, which is self-defeating and only encourages retaliation.

一个人，尤其是一个女人，她已经很闪光、美艳动人和充满活力，集上帝的万千宠爱于一身。任何修饰的这种努力都无异于是弄巧成拙。A person especially a female, radiant with beauty and full of life, has all the favor granted by God. Any attempt to make up is self-defeating.