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


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