"Self-defeating" nghĩa là gì?

Đàn áp người biểu tình* là thất sách. Photo courtesy Chris.

'Self-defeating' nghĩa là tự chuốc lấy thất bại, thất sách ((of an action or policy) unable, because of its inherent qualities, to achieve the end it is designed to bring about).

Ví dụ
U.S. corporate income tax is self-defeating.

The Benghazi hearing (phiên tòa) was a self-defeating travesty (trò hề nhại, sự bôi bác).

Punishing the demonstrators is self-defeating because it only encourages further demonstrations.

Absent some articulation of limits and agreement on mutual rules of restraint, a crisis situation is likely to arise, even unintentionally; the very concept of international order may be subject to mounting strains. In other categories of strategic capabilities, governments have come to recognize the self-defeating nature of unconstrained national conduct.

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* Miners Strike March 30yrs on Rotherham Silverwood Pit.
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