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to react / to respond / reaction / response / reply / chemical reaction / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
repeatedly / over and over / to upend / unstable / to come and go / (of an illness) to return
HSK 3
to oppose; to be against; to object to
HSK 3
anyway / in any case / to come over from the enemy's side
HSK 3
variant of 反覆|反复
HSK 3
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contrary / in reverse / inside out or upside down / to reverse / to return / to oppose / opposite / against / anti- / to rebel / to use analogy / instead / abbr. for 反切 phonetic system
HSK 4
opposite / contrary
HSK 4
to mirror / to reflect / mirror image / reflection / (fig.) to report / to make known / to render
HSK 4
on the contrary; instead
HSK 4
to violate (a law)
HSK 5
to resist / to rebel
HSK 6
to ask (a question) in reply / to answer a question with a question / rhetorical question
HSK 6
repercussions / reaction / echo
HSK 6
to reflect upon oneself / to examine one's conscience / to question oneself / to search one's soul
HSK 7-9
to strike back; to beat back; to counterattack
HSK 7-9
to send back information / feedback
HSK 7-9
to be disgusted with / to dislike / bad reaction / antipathy
HSK 7-9
to retort / to refute
HSK 7-9
to think back over sth / to review / to revisit / to rethink / reflection / reassessment
HSK 7-9
conversely / in reverse order / in an opposite direction
HSK 7-9
contrast; discrepancy
HSK 7-9
unusual / abnormal
HSK 7-9
to raise one and infer three / to deduce many things from one case (idiom)
HSK 7-9
just the opposite
HSK 7-9
(coll.) but on the contrary; but instead
HSK 7-9
to bounce / to bounce back / to boomerang / to ricochet / rebound (of stock market etc) / bounce / backlash / negative repercussions
HSK 7-9
reverse side / backside / the other side (of a problem etc) / negative / bad
HSK 7-9
breeder reactor
stratagem of sowing dissension / CL: 條|条
unstable / erratic / changeable / fickle
to counterattack / to come back after a defeat / to retrieve lost ground
nuclear reaction
atomic reactor
communist attack against the Guomindang's encircle and annihilate campaign
to ruminate / to chew the cud
to violate the constitution
inverter, device that converts AC electricity to DC and vice versa
"Three Anti" campaign (anti-corruption, anti-waste, anti-bureaucracy), early PRC purge of 1951–52
reflex arc
inverse function (math.)
(molecular biology) reverse transcription
to toss and turn
the side opposed to the proposition (in a formal debate)
rhetorical question
reflecting telescope
character with opposite meaning / antonym / opposite characters
to glance back / (fig.) to regret; to have second thoughts about sth
anti-missile
purge of counterrevolutionaries (esp. Mao's purge of hidden counterrevolutionaries 1955-56 and Stalin's Great Purge 1936-38)
anti-infiltration (measures taken against subversive external forces) / (chemistry) reverse osmosis
catadioptric telescope
antonymous / (genetic) antisense
(idiom) chain reaction
villain (of a drama etc)
reversal / inversion / to reverse / to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc)
thermal reactor
opposite direction / reverse
bioreactor
to ask (a question) in reply / to answer a question with a question / rhetorical question
theory of reflection (in dialectic materialism), i.e. every perception reflects physical reality
rebel; insurgent
to make a false countercharge
to counterattack / a counteroffensive
positive and negative / pros and cons / inside and outside
to rebel / to revolt
a government official drives the people to revolt (idiom); a minister provokes a rebellion by exploiting the people
trans fat / trans-isomer fatty acid
to reflect light
to turn a hand over / to put one's hand behind one's back / fig. easily done
(physiognomy) protruding bone at the back of the head, regarded as a sign of a renegade nature
to reflect / reflection (from a mirror etc) / reflex (i.e. automatic reaction of organism)
nuclear reactor
on the other hand... / conversely...
nocebo
negative character / bad guy (in a story)
rebel faction
retching / vomiting
to renege / to go back (on a deal) / to back out (of a promise)
hypersensitivity
anti-communist
to redress (an injustice); to rehabilitate (sb whose reputation was unjustly sullied)
(a person's) rebellious appearance / signs of an impending rebellion / (physics) reversed phase
locked in (with the door locked from the outside)
old: to reap the consequences of one's words (idiom, from Mencius); modern: to go back on one's word / to blow hot and cold / to contradict oneself / inconsistent
to turn traitor; to defect
to produce the opposite of the desired result
counterintelligence / protection against espionage
chemical reaction
reflector (typically concave, as in a torch) / mirror (typically plane or convex)
vice versa
to toss and turn restlessly (in the bed)
anti-war
(bird species of China) pied avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
lit. the guest acts as host (idiom); fig. to turn from passive to active behavior
complete change from the normal state (idiom); quite uncharacteristic / entirely outside the norm / out of character
bring order out of chaos / set to rights things which have been thrown into disorder
dissenting vote
to rebel / to revolt
opposition (political) party
irony / to satirize

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