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contrary / opposite / backwards / to go against / to oppose / to betray / to rebel
HSK 7-9
to rebel / to revolt / a rebel
HSK 7-9
backwards / reverse direction
against the current / upstream
(literary) to be in defiance of the natural order / (coll.) extraordinary; incredible
reversible / (math.) invertible
to go against the wind / contrary wind / a headwind
to go the wrong way / to go against one-way traffic regulation
adversity / predicament
to turn back / to reverse
to counterattack; to strike back / (neologism c. 2008) (of an underdog) to go on the offensive; to make an improbable comeback
against the stream / adverse current / a countercurrent / fig. reactionary tendency / to go against the trend
adverse trade balance / trade deficit
rebellious behavior / opposite / ob-
backlighting (lighting design)
to go against the trend
to sail against the current / (fig.) to go against the flow
unfilial son
inverse order
guest-house / inn
lit. navigating a boat against the current (idiom) / fig. in a tough environment (one needs to work hard)
disobedient to parents
like rowing a boat upstream, if you stop moving forward you fall back (idiom)
disgraceful (of behavior that is unfilial, rebellious or otherwise in grave breach of the norms of society)
contrary
to resign oneself to adversity (idiom); to grin and bear it / to submit meekly to insults, maltreatment, humiliation etc
very friendly / intimate
to disobey / to defy an edict / to violate / to go against / to run counter to
intimate friendship / bosom buddies
loyal advice jars on the ears (idiom)
unpleasant to hear / grates on the ear (of home truths)
to go against / to do sth contrary to (sb's wishes)
to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong / to try to turn back history / a perverse way of doing things
to hiccup / to belch
traitor's property / breech delivery
to foresee / to predict
reverse flow of 氣|气 (TCM)
unfavorable / undesired
rebellious minister
irreversible
to rebel / to revolt
traitor
trade deficit / adverse trade balance
(of an engine) to backfire
renegade / traitor and bandit
reverse transcription virus / retrovirus
reverse transcriptase
study is like rowing upstream – if you don't keep pushing forward, you fall behind
(astrology) Mercury retrograde (abbr. for 水星逆行); (coll.) to have a period of bad luck / (TCM) water retention in the abdomen causing the vomiting of liquids as soon as one drinks
reversibility
irreversible
converse theorem (math.)
inverse map (math.)
reverse psychology
(psychology) adversity quotient (abbr. for 逆境商數|逆境商数)
oxymoron
to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong / to try to turn back history / a perverse way of doing things
multiplicative inverse (math.)
belching and retching counterflow (medical term)
to violate; to go against
to wipe out the villains (e.g. insurgents, or people of another race)
equatorial counter current
unnatural relationship (parricide, incest etc) / unfilial conduct / against social morals
reverse reaction / counterreaction / inverse response
inverted turn (ornament in music)
invaders (insulting term) / foreign aggressors
orca; killer whale (Orcinus orca)
(geology) anaclinal
reverse fault (geology) / compression fault, where one block pushes over the other at dip of less than 45 degrees
anticlockwise / counterclockwise
to go back to the source
reverse osmosis
to seem to grow younger / to regain one's youthful looks
speech that grates on the ear (idiom); bitter truths / home truths (that one does not want to hear)
reversing (e.g. electric current)
bad luck / unlucky fate
inverse operation / inverse calculation
anti-aging
lit. violating heaven and reason (idiom); immoral character
submit to me and prosper, or oppose me and perish


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