| | 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 fall down / to slip and fall / to throw sb to the ground | HSK 5 |
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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 (of building) / 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 turn upside down / to reverse / back to front / confused / deranged / crazy | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to overthrow / to knock down / Down with ... ! | HSK 7-9 |
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| | but on the contrary / but expectedly | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to collapse / to topple over | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to overwhelm / to overpower / overwhelming | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to faint / to swoon / to black out / to become unconscious | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to have bad luck / to be out of luck | 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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| | 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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| | to fall back / to go in reverse | |
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| | to lie down / to drop dead | |
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| | to kneel down / to sink to one's knees / to grovel | |
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| | to overturn trunks and boxes / to make a thorough search (idiom) | |
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| | troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse | |
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| | lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering / fig. gigantic / of spectacular significance | |
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| | saltwater intrusion | |
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| | down on one's luck; in straitened circumstances; disappointed; frustrated | |
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| | confused / disorderly / incoherent | |
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| | to overturn / to overthrow / to capsize / to collapse | |
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| | When the tree topples the monkeys scatter. (idiom); fig. an opportunist abandons an unfavorable cause / Rats leave a sinking ship. | |
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| | to turn upside down / to upend | |
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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 move / to shift / to exchange / to buy and sell / peddling | |
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| | lit. spirit and soul upside down (idiom); infatuated and head over heels in love / fascinated / captivated | |
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| | to invert right and wrong | |
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| | roly-poly toy | |
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| | to push over / to overthrow | |
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| | to fall to the ground | |
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| | instead / on the contrary / contrary (to expectations) | |
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| | to topple over / to greatly admire | |
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| | to dump / to pour / to empty out | |
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| | to tumble / to fall / fig. to suffer a reverse (in politics or business) | |
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| | inverted image / reversed image (e.g. upside down) | |
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| | a handstand / to turn upside down / to stand on one's head / upside down | |
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| | to faint | |
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| | to fall dead | |
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| | reverse order / inverted order | |
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| | overwhelming | |
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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 knock down / knocked down | |
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| | lit. to hang upside down / fig. in dire straits | |
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| | dead loan / bad debts / to refuse to pay loan | |
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| | to drive in reverse / fig. to take a backward step / retrogressive / trying to turn the clock back | |
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| | to bend with the wind | |
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| | to have the advantage overwhelmingly on one side / to support unconditionally | |
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| | to be entirely on one side / one-sided / lopsided / partisan / overwhelmingly on one side | |
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| | lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately / to misrepresent the facts / to invert right and wrong | |
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| | lit. when a wall is about to collapse, everybody gives it a shove (idiom) / fig. everybody hits a man who is down | |
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| | to fall down | |
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| | to lie down / to die | |
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| | lit. the east wind prevails over the west wind (idiom) / fig. one side prevails over the other / progressive ideas prevail over reactionary ones | |
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| | to lie down / to drop to the ground | |
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| | to be frightened | |
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| | to marry and live with the bride's family (inverting traditional Chinese expectations) | |
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| | (coll.) a profiteer / (business) wheeler-dealer | |
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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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| | (optics) inverted image | |
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| | to gasp (in surprise, dismay, fright etc) | |
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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 reverse cause and effect / to put the horse before the cart | |
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| | to engage in speculation and profiteering | |
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| | cold snap during the spring | |
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| | to have sexual intercourse | |
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| | to take turns / to rotate (responsibility) | |
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| | to collapse / to crash down / to fall down in a heap | |
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| | to split one's sides laughing | |
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| | to sustain loss in trade | |
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| | (cinema) to rewind (a reel) / (photography) to rewind (a roll of film) | |
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| | to trip / to stumble | |
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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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| | to change sides in a war / turncoat | |
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| | to invert the importance of things (i.e. stress the unimportant and neglect the important) / lacking a sense of perspective / to put the cart before the horse | |
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| | to pull down / (coll.) to let it go; to drop it | |
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| | to reflect (producing an inverted image) | |
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| | to knock over; to knock down; to lay flat; to fell; to bring down | |
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| | to have rotten luck (stronger version of 倒霉) | |
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| | lit. to rescue the people from hanging upside down (idiom, from Mencius); to save the people from dire straits | |
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| | rotation of crops | |
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| | to take a fall | |
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| | mischief / to make trouble | |
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| | lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom) / fig. overwhelming / earth-shattering / in a spectacular mess | |
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| | (linguistics) to invert (word order) | |
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| | handstand | |
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| | to turn over manure / fig. to offend others by endlessly repeating unpleasant remarks | |
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| | (of cows) to ruminate | |
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| | to be more of a hindrance than a help | |
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| | to buy and sell at a profit / to speculate | |
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| | to invert | |
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