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


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