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


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