Dishonesty is ultimately self-defeating.
不诚实最终将会自食其果。
Paying children too much attention when they misbehave can be self-defeating.
孩子有不良行为时，小题大做可能适得其反。
Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.
狭隘自私的行为最终会自拆台脚。
Those who use self-defeating humor, making fun of themselves, for the enjoyment of others, tend to maintain that hostility toward themselves even when alone.
那些自黑式的幽默，拿自己开玩笑，来让别人开心的人，即使在独处的时候往往也会对自己怀有敌意。
One is a reasonable response to a challenging market. The other is a self-defeating trade-off.
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。
Some observers of Ireland’s troubles reckon the attempt to tackle the deficit with austerity measures is self-defeating.
爱尔兰问题观察家们认为：用紧缩政策解决赤字的尝试将会事倍功半。
This is why you must begin to alter self-defeating thoughts in order to experience success.
这就是你为什么要改变自己自我挫败的思想以获得成国。
Blaming the Senate, or the United States, is unfair — and potentially self-defeating.
去谴责参议院或者美国，是不公平的——甚至会弄巧成拙。
Some observers of Ireland's troubles reckon the attempt to tackle the deficit with austerity measures is self-defeating.
爱尔兰问题观察家们认为：用紧缩政策解决赤字的尝试将会事倍功半。
But, on the other hand, a sharp fiscal consolidation focused on the very near term could be self-defeating if it were to undercut the still-fragile recovery.
但是，从另一个方面来说，着眼于短期的严苛财政整顿可能会弄巧成拙——如果其目的是从仍然脆弱的经济复苏中釜底抽薪的话。
Those who use self-defeating humor, making fun of themselves for the enjoyment of others, tend to maintain that hostility toward themselves even when alone.
那些用自我诋毁式幽默的人，牺牲自己而取悦他人，反而会把让自己陷入窘境，即使他们自己一人时也会遇到这样的情况。
Talking to your doctor about your pain might therefore be self-defeating claims the researchers at Jena University in Germany as it stimulates a part of the brain known as the “pain matrix”.
德国耶拿大学的研究人员称，向医生描述你的疼痛感同样会弄巧成拙 --因为这会激活脑部被称作“痛感矩阵”的区域。
Resisting change or trying to control the change out of life is self-defeating.
无论是抗拒变化还是试图控制我们无能为力的东西都是自寻烦恼。
This urge to shore up wealth is self-defeating in aggregate, as it curbs spending and incomes.
这种强烈的财富保值意识宏观加总后反而弄巧成拙，因为这抑制了支出和收入。
Besides, American policy can seem self-defeating.
此外，美国的政策似乎也弄巧成拙。
One is that countries are at last getting rid of the self-defeating anti-farmer policies that they imposed at the height of panic over rising food prices in early 2008.
首先，国家最终摆脱了他们在2008年初，在粮价上涨引起的高度恐慌时强制实行的非常不利己的反农民政策。
Dr. Cutler's research suggests that this is self-defeating behavior.
卡特勒博士的研究表明这是一种事与愿违的行为。
It's a self-defeating strategy, you need to eat enough, and particularly protein, to build lean and toned muscle in the first place.
这种做法其实是自拆台脚，你必须吃的足够多，尤其是蛋白质，以便塑造瘦的肌肉
This is unfortunately rather self-defeating.
不幸的是，这有点儿弄巧成拙。
It's a set of traits that describes perfectly the behavior of many of the people who, in a cascade of self-defeating decisions, helped create the subprime crisis.
这一系列的特性可以完美地描述人们一连串的不利行为，并最终如何制造了这场次贷危机。
Many shortcuts are self-defeating; they waste the reader's time instead of conserving it.
许多走捷径的方法都会适得其反；它们只会浪费读者的时间，压根就没有节省。
Nothing is more futile and more self-defeating than the bitterness of spurned love, the vengeful feeling that someone else has “come between” oneself and a beloved.
因失恋而痛苦，因别人“插足”于自己与心上人之间而图报复，是最没有出息、最自作自受的乐。
To cut science funding in order to cut the deficit is actually self-defeating.
为了减少赤字而削减科技经费无异于饮鸩止渴。
And the good news is, you don't have to disband your quest to obliterate self-defeating limits.
好消息是，你无需撤销消灭自我挫败的限制。
In economics it means avoiding protectionism, which is doubly self-defeating as it both undermines China's faith in the system and makes America poorer and less able to defend itself.
在经济学问题上，它意味着避免保护主义，由于保护主义既削弱了中国对体系所抱有的信念，又使美国更加贫穷、更无力保护自己，因此它为实施者本身带来的伤害将是加倍的。
Therapists say the high achiever often holds self-defeating double standards, feeling sympathetic toward the unemployed while assuming that unemployment would bring him only shame.
心理治疗专家表示，成就非凡的人经常树立不利于自己的双重标准，一方面他会对失业者表示同情，另一方面却认为失业只会带给自己耻辱。
Therapists say the high achiever often holds self-defeating double standards, feeling sympathetic toward the unemployed while assuming that unemployment would bring him only shame.
心理治疗专家表示，成就非凡的人经常树立不利于自己的双重标准，一方面他会对失业者表示同情，另一方面却认为失业只会带给自己耻辱。
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