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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *倒* | 倒* | *倒
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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *倒* | 倒* | *倒
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
to fall down / to slip and fall / to throw sb to the ground
HSK 5
to turn upside down / to reverse / back to front / confused / deranged / crazy
HSK 7-9
to overwhelm / to overpower / overwhelming
HSK 7-9
(coll.) but on the contrary; but instead
HSK 7-9
to faint / to swoon / to black out / to become unconscious
HSK 7-9
to overthrow / to knock down / Down with ... !
HSK 7-9
to trip / to stumble
to tumble / to fall / fig. to suffer a reverse (in politics or business)
to knock down / knocked down
to topple over; to fall over / to greatly admire; to prostrate oneself before
to dump; to pour out; to empty out
to baffle / to confound / to stump
(coll.) forget it; drop it; let it go / to pull down
to kneel down / to sink to one's knees / to grovel
to fall ill / to be stricken with an illness
to have the advantage overwhelmingly on one side / to support unconditionally
down on one's luck; in straitened circumstances; disappointed; frustrated
to lie down
to take a fall
to knock over; to knock down; to lay flat; to fell; to bring down
to be frightened
to lie down / to drop to the ground
lit. spirit and soul upside down (idiom); infatuated and head over heels in love / fascinated / captivated
to prostrate oneself / to fall on one's knees / to grovel
to knock down / to mow down
three-shift system (work rostering)
to overturn / to overthrow / to capsize / to collapse
to refute / to demolish (an argument, theory etc)
to split one's sides laughing
to bend with the wind
troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse
to fall down
to pass out drunk
to be entirely on one side / one-sided / lopsided / partisan / overwhelmingly on one side
speculation by officials / profiteering by government employees / bureaucratic turpitude
to stump / to baffle
to interrogate, leaving sb speechless
to collapse / to crash down / to fall down in a heap
to slip and fall; to lose one's footing and fall
but on the contrary / but unexpectedly
to laugh until it hurts; to laugh heartily
to push over / to overthrow
to knock down / to knock over / to run over (sb)
to faint
to knock sth over
(idiom) to live in poverty and despair; down and out; destitute and without hope
impoverished and dejected; wretched and penniless
destitute; poverty-stricken
not to pose a problem for sb / cannot stump sb
Timber! (lumberjack's warning call)


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