|  | 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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 |  | contrary to what one might expect  / actually  / contrariwise  / why don't you   | HSK 5  | 
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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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 |  | to collapse  / to topple over   | HSK 7-9  | 
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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 down  / countdown   | HSK 7-9  | 
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 |  | to have bad luck  / to be out of luck   | HSK 7-9  | 
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 |  | overwhelming   |  | 
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 |  | to collapse (of building)  / to topple over   | HSK 7-9  | 
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 |  | to have the advantage overwhelmingly on one side  / to support unconditionally   |  | 
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 |  | to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards)   |  | 
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 |  | to fall to the ground   |  | 
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 |  | to overwhelm  / to overpower  / overwhelming   | HSK 7-9  | 
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 |  | to knock down  / knocked down   |  | 
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 |  | to overthrow  / to knock down  / Down with ... !   | HSK 7-9  | 
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 |  | to resell at a profit  / to speculate   | HSK 7-9  | 
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 |  | three-shift system (work rostering)   |  | 
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 |  | to have bad luck   |  | 
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 |  | to reverse cause and effect  / to put the horse before the cart   |  | 
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 |  | locked in (with the door locked from the outside)   |  | 
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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 take a fall   |  | 
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 |  | to turn upside down  / to reverse  / back to front  / confused  / deranged  / crazy   | HSK 7-9  | 
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 |  | to lie down   |  | 
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 |  | Timber! (lumberjack's warning call)   |  | 
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 |  | backwards; in reverse; upside down   |  | 
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 |  | rewind (media player)   |  | 
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 |  | (linguistics) inverted sentence   |  | 
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 |  | down on one's luck; in straitened circumstances; disappointed; frustrated   |  | 
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 |  | to move  / to shift  / to exchange  / to buy and sell  / peddling   |  | 
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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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 |  | lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom)  / fig. overwhelming  / earth-shattering  / in a spectacular mess   |  | 
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 |  | to flow backwards  / reverse flow   |  | 
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 |  | to fall from power; to collapse  / downfall   |  | 
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 |  | to faint  / to swoon  / to black out  / to become unconscious   | HSK 7-9  | 
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 |  | (coll.) forget it; drop it; let it go  / to pull down   |  | 
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 |  | to gasp (in surprise, dismay, fright etc)   |  | 
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 |  | to adjust to a different time zone   |  | 
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 |  | (coll.) a profiteer  / (business) wheeler-dealer   |  | 
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 |  | to change sides in a war  / turncoat   |  | 
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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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 |  | to be entirely on one side  / one-sided  / lopsided  / partisan  / overwhelmingly on one side   |  | 
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 |  | lit. to invert root and branch (idiom); fig. confusing cause and effect  / to stress the incidental over the fundamental  / to put the cart before the horse   |  | 
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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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 |  | (coll.) but on the contrary; but instead   | 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 pour out one's grievances   |  | 
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 |  | (coll.) poor devil  / unfortunate man   |  | 
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 |  | to lie down  / to die   |  | 
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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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 |  | to reverse a vehicle  / to drive backwards   |  | 
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 |  | to pass out drunk   |  | 
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 |  | confused  / disorderly  / incoherent   |  | 
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 |  | a handstand  / to turn upside down  / to stand on one's head  / upside down   |  | 
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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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 |  | lit. to hang upside down  / fig. in dire straits   |  | 
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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 be more of a hindrance than a help   |  | 
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 |  | to topple over; to fall over  / to greatly admire; to prostrate oneself before   |  | 
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 |  | to dump; to pour out; to empty out   |  | 
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 |  | to lie down  / to drop to the ground   |  | 
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 |  | not to pose a problem for sb  / cannot stump sb   |  | 
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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 take turns  / to rotate (responsibility)   |  | 
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 |  | to move (things around)  / to buy and sell at a profit (derog.)   |  | 
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 |  | with one's hands behind one's back   |  | 
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 |  | to change shifts  / to work in turns   |  | 
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 |  | destitute; poverty-stricken   |  | 
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 |  | barb  / barbed tip (e.g. of fishhook)   |  | 
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 |  | to slip and fall; to lose one's footing and fall   |  | 
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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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 |  | 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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 |  | rotation of crops   |  | 
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 |  | adverse audience reaction: boos and jeers, hissing, catcalls or deliberate applause after a mistake   |  | 
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 |  | to boo or jeer (as a sign of displeasure at an actor)   |  | 
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 |  | (of cereal crops) to collapse and lie flat   |  | 
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 |  | reverse order  / inverted order   |  | 
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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 sustain loss in trade   |  | 
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 |  | (idiom) to distort right and wrong; to deliberately mislead   |  | 
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 |  | to refute  / to demolish (an argument, theory etc)   |  | 
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 |  | to play the market  / to speculate (on financial markets)  / to profiteer   |  | 
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 |  | to collapse (of building)   |  | 
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 |  | troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse   |  | 
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 |  | to fall dead   |  | 
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 |  | chamfer; bevel   |  | 
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 |  | inverted image  / reversed image (e.g. upside down)   |  | 
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 |  | mischief  / to make trouble   |  | 
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 |  | to collapse  / to crash down  / to fall down in a heap   |  | 
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 |  | to trip  / to stumble   |  | 
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 |  | lit. to move mountains and drain seas  / to transform nature   |  | 
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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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