释义
make a wrong or inappropriate choice
下错了赌注；做错了选择。
双语例句
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If you back the wrong horse, you give your support to the losing side in something.
如果你力挺一批错误的马，你把你的支持给了失利的一方。
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Publishers, like other people, sometimes reject chances of backing the right horse, and stubbornly back the wrong one.
像其他人一样，出版商有时拒绝扶植大有前途的作家，而固执地对毫无希望的人大献殷勤。