return to the same school and repeat a course from which one has already graduated, as a result of failing to get good enough results to progress to one's desired higher-level school—
复读
get the desired outcome by flattery—
奉承讨好
get the desired outcome—
讨好
keenly desired—
切盼
produce the opposite of the desired result—
适得其反
desired information n—
需要的信息 n
impersonate sb but gain the opposite of the desired effect [idiom.]—