| | to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally / to fail; to go bankrupt / to overthrow / to change (trains or buses) / to move around / to resell at a profit | HSK 2 |
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| | to invert; to place upside down or frontside back / to pour out / to tip out; to dump / inverted; upside down; reversed / to go backward / contrary to what one might expect; but; yet | HSK 2 |
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| | to go bankrupt / to close down | HSK 4 |
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| | to change buses, trains etc | HSK 4 |
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| | to reverse (a vehicle) / to drive backwards | HSK 4 |
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| | contrary to what one might expect / actually / contrariwise / why don't you | HSK 5 |
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| | to have bad luck / to be out of luck | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to count backwards (from 10 down to 0) / to count down / from the bottom (lines on a page) / from the back (rows of seats) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to collapse / to topple over | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to resell at a profit / to speculate | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to collapse (of building) / to topple over | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to count down / countdown | HSK 7-9 |
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| | inverse number / reciprocal (math.) | |
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| | (linguistics) to invert (word order) | |
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| | to invert | |
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| | to make an about-turn; to reverse one's direction, policy, sequence etc; to turn things on their head | |
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| | (of time, or a video clip etc) to run in reverse / Taiwan pr. [dao4zhuan3] | |
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| | to fall from power; to collapse / downfall | |
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| | to change shifts / to work in turns | |
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| | to reflect (producing an inverted image) | |
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| | to fall back / to go in reverse | |
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| | reverse order / inverted order | |
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| | to lose money instead of being paid (i.e. sb should pay me, but is actually taking my money) | |
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| | lit. to hang upside down / fig. topsy-turvy and inequitable, e.g. manufacturing and trading costs exceed the sale price (of some goods) / to borrow more than one can ever repay | |
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| | to flow backwards (of water, because of flood, tide, wind etc) / reverse flow / to back up (sewage) | |
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| | to change sides in a war / turncoat | |
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| | (of cereal crops) to collapse and lie flat | |
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| | a handstand / to turn upside down / to stand on one's head / upside down | |
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| | barb / barbed tip (e.g. of fishhook) | |
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| | to lie down / to die | |
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| | inverted image / reversed image (e.g. upside down) | |
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| | rewind (media player) | |
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| | (coll.) a profiteer / (business) wheeler-dealer | |
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| | to take turns / to rotate (responsibility) | |
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| | to move / to shift / to exchange / to buy and sell / peddling | |
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| | to flow backwards / reverse flow | |
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| | to start a narrative at the end (or midway), then proceed chronologically from the beginning / to flash back / flashback (in a novel, movie etc) | |
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| | to marry and live with the bride's family (inverting traditional Chinese expectations) | |
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| | lit. to strike with a muckrake (idiom), cf Pigsy 豬八戒｜猪八戒 in Journey to the West 西遊記｜西游记; fig. to counterattack / to make bogus accusations (against one's victim) | |
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| | lit. to hang upside down / fig. in dire straits | |
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| | to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards) | |
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| | to move (things around) / to buy and sell at a profit (derog.) | |
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| | to shift from one hand to the other / to change hands (of merchandise) | |
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| | trichiasis (ingrown eyelashes) | |
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| | to fall dead | |
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| | to fall headlong / (fig.) to suffer an ignominious failure | |
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| | to lie down / to drop dead | |
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| | adverse audience reaction: boos and jeers, hissing, catcalls or deliberate applause after a mistake | |
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| | to sustain loss in trade | |
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| | to transfer grain from a store (e.g. to sun it) / voice breaking (of male opera singer in puberty) | |
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| | to fall (from power) / in decline / unlucky | |
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| | to shift holidays, taking a weekday off | |
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| | to reverse cause and effect / to put the horse before the cart | |
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| | (of a singer) to lose one's voice / (male opera singer's) voice change (at puberty) | |
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| | to have bad luck | |
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| | to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong / to try to turn back history / a perverse way of doing things | |
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| | locked in (with the door locked from the outside) | |
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| | to collapse (of building) | |
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| | to take turns (responsibility) / to replace | |
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| | to spoil one's appetite / fig. to get fed up with sth | |
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| | to play the market / to speculate (on financial markets) / to profiteer | |
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| | to have smoke billowing from a fireplace or stove (due to a blockage in the chimney) | |
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| | to buy and sell at a profit / to speculate | |
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| | to fall to the ground | |
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| | to place upside down / to play (a video) backwards | |
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| | mischief / to make trouble | |
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| | cold snap during the spring | |
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| | fallen tree | |
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| | to have rotten luck (stronger version of 倒霉) | |
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| | chamfer; bevel | |
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| | Taiwan political movement aimed at forcing the resignation of President Chen Shui-bian 陳水扁｜陈水扁 in 2006 over corruption allegations | |
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| | to empty (a bag) / to turn inside out / to turn out | |
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| | instead / on the contrary / contrary (to expectations) | |
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| | to adjust to a different time zone | |
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| | to pour out one's grievances | |
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| | rotation of crops | |
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| | reverse gear | |
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| | inversion | |
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| | lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation / dire straits | |
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| | to gasp (in surprise, dismay, fright etc) | |
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| | (cinema) to rewind (a reel) / (photography) to rewind (a roll of film) | |
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| | to ruminate (of cows) | |
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| | dead loan / bad debts / to refuse to pay loan | |
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| | the north-facing room opposite the master's in a siheyuan 四合院 | |
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| | lit. to present the handle of a sword to another (idiom) / fig. to relinquish power to another; to place oneself at another's mercy | |
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| | unrecoverable debt / bad debt / to evade debt | |
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| | (neologism c. 2006) (of circumstances) to stimulate (change, esp. innovation, reform etc) | |
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| | to reverse a vehicle / to drive backwards | |
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| | (optics) inverted image | |
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| | to violate the natural order; to defy social norms | |
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| | Wrightia tinctoria (flowering plant in Apocynaceae family, common names dyer's oleander or pala indigo) | |
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| | to gasp (with amazement or shock etc) / to feel a chill run down one's spine / to have one's hairs stand on end | |
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| | (of cows) to ruminate | |
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| | mirror writing / upside down writing | |
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| | jeering / booing / catcalls | |
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| | lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation / dire straits | |
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| | lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation / dire straits | |
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