own goal
own goal — 名詞
1. in football and similar games, a goal accidentally put into your own net, which
烏龍球
球員誤踢進自家球門的失分
in football and similar games, a goal accidentally put into your own net, which is then counted for the other side.
Haruto kicked the ball past his own keeper and scored an embarrassing own goal.
Haruto 把球踢過自家守門員，尷尬地踢進一記烏龍球。
collocation: score an own goal
The defender's clumsy header turned into an own goal in the final minute.
那名後衛笨拙的頭槌在最後一分鐘變成了烏龍球。
subject is a deflected touch, not a shot
Ilan sliced the ball into his own net, and the late own goal won the match.
Ilan 把球削進了自家球門，這記終場前的烏龍球贏下了比賽。
Fans groaned when Amelia deflected the corner kick into her own net for an own goal.
球迷看到 Amelia 把角球碰進自家球門、送出烏龍球時哀號連連。
Sari stretched to clear the cross but turned it into an own goal past her keeper.
Sari 伸腳想解圍那記傳中球，卻把球碰過自家守門員，變成烏龍球。
文法句型
score an own goal
用法筆記
Almost always counted by the team that benefits, not the player who made the error. The verb is usually 'score' (an own goal), even though the player did not mean to.
常見錯誤
2. an action meant to help you that ends up hurting your own side and helping the p
搬石砸腳
本想得利卻反害自己的行為
an action meant to help you that ends up hurting your own side and helping the people you were against.
Cutting the training budget was an own goal, because skilled staff soon left for rivals.
刪減培訓預算根本是搬石砸腳，因為熟練的員工很快就跳槽到對手那邊。
be + an own goal for a self-harming choice
Omar's angry email to the whole office was a complete own goal for his promotion hopes.
Omar 那封發給全公司的怒氣郵件，對他的升遷簡直是搬石砸腳。
collocation: a complete own goal
Raising prices during the strike proved a costly own goal for the supermarket chain.
在罷工期間漲價，結果證明是那家連鎖超市代價高昂的搬石砸腳之舉。
By insulting loyal customers, the airline scored a spectacular own goal on social media.
那家航空公司在社群媒體上侮辱忠實顧客，等於是狠狠地搬石砸腳。
Lucía realised that hiding the report was an own goal once the truth came out.
Lucía 發現，真相曝光後，藏起那份報告根本是搬石砸腳。
- backfire
a verb for the same idea; 'the plan backfired' vs 'the plan was an own goal'
- self-inflicted wound
more dramatic, often used in politics and journalism
文法句型
be an own goal
score an own goal
用法筆記
Distinguish from sense 1: this figurative sense needs no sport at all, and the harm falls on the doer's own interests rather than a literal scoreboard. Often paired with adjectives like 'spectacular', 'complete', or 'costly'.