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to know all the ins and outs of sth / to get to know (a place) inside out
to make an about-turn; to reverse one's direction, policy, sequence etc; to turn things on their head
(of time, or a video clip etc) to run in reverse / Taiwan pr. [dao4zhuan3]
fortunes rise and fall; times change
orbital revolution
to rotate / to revolve / to spin / to whirl
HSK 6
to revolve; to rotate / to turn around; to turn back / to go back; to return / (skiing) slalom
irreversible
to spin / to rotate / to revolve
reversal / inversion / to reverse / to invert (upside down, inside out, back to front, white to black etc)
to turn right
to change (train or plane) / transfer / correspondence
(voice, music) suave / mellow / (speech) indirect / tactful
to reverse / to turn around (an undesirable situation) / (mechanics) torsion
HSK 7-9
to fool / to dupe
to roll / to turn over / to invert / to flip
to go round and round / running around in circles / fig. frantically busy
to turn left (Shanghainese)
to rotate / to circulate (cash, stock etc) / turnover / circulation / cash flow
to rotate
the time comes, fortune turns (idiom); to have a lucky break / things change for the better
lit. the sky shakes and the ground revolves / momentous changes are underway (idiom)
to reassign sb to a different job / to turn around / to change direction / to make a U turn
lit. if the mountain won't move, the river will go around it (idiom) / fig. there's always a way forward, even when faced with obstacles
reflex (angle) / to turn back
reflex (angle) / to turn back
to spin rapidly; to whirl around / (of time) to fly by
to improve / to take a turn for the better / improvement
HSK 6
the mountain road twists around each new peak (idiom) / (of a mountain road) twisting and turning / fig. an opportunity has come unexpectedly / things have taken a new turn
HSK 7-9
(medicine) testicular torsion
to be on the move / to roam or wander / to circulate (of goods or capital)
HSK 7-9
to toss about in bed / from person to person / indirectly / to wander
to turn around
cash flow
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to turn / to change direction / to transfer / to forward (mail) / (Internet) to share (sb else's content)
HSK 3
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to revolve / to turn / to circle about / to walk about / classifier for revolutions (per minute etc): revs, rpm / classifier for repeated actions
HSK 6
lit. if the mountain won't move, the road will go around it (idiom) / fig. there's always a way forward, even when faced with obstacles
to turn away / to turn one's back to / (gymnastics etc) backspin
lit. the Big Dipper 北斗星 has turned and the stars have moved / time flies / also written 斗轉星移|斗转星移
to go for a stroll
genre of song-and-dance duet popular in northeast China
(computing) to jump to (a new location in a hypertext document)
can't handle it / can't find any way (of doing sth) / not up to the task
(slang) to be genderswapped (abbr. for 性別轉換|性别转换)
deflection (physics) / deviation (away from a straight line)
fast-forward
to whirl / to turn around quickly
the Wheel turns constantly (idiom); Buddhist teaching will overcome everything
to turn left
(of a celestial body) to rotate on its own axis
to wake up; to regain consciousness
lit. pearl flows, jade moves on (idiom); fig. the passage of time / water under the bridge
cash flow
to turn back / to reverse
the sky spins, the earth goes round (idiom); giddy with one's head spinning / fig. huge changes in the world
to turn / to turn around / to transfer (funds etc)
to approve and forward / to endorse / stamp "approved for distribution"
to change the direction or tone of a conversation
to rotate about an axis / axis of rotation (math.)
to turn right (Shanghainese)
to work / to operate / to revolve / to turn around
HSK 7-9
(lit. and fig.) to go around and around; to wander around
(coll.) to work non-stop; to work around the clock
to demobilize / to transfer to other tasks (of troops)
to transmit a document (up or down a chain of bureaucracy)
(theater) blackout (e.g. at the end of a scene) / (literary) to be promoted in rank secretly
can handle it / up to the task
to shift / to transfer
variant of 迴轉|回转
sinuous / meandering / to take a circuitous route / to toss about / vicissitudes / variant of 婉轉|婉转
variant of 輾轉|辗转


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