to lose money instead of being paid (i.e. sb should pay me, but is actually taking my money)
1. to lean unsteadily from side to side (idiom)2. to sway3. (of buildings etc) to lean at a crazy angle
1. lit. to hang upside down2. fig. topsy-turvy and inequitable, e.g. manufacturing and trading costs exceed the sale price (of some goods)3. to borrow more than one can ever repay
1. lit. to invert root and branch (idiom); fig. confusing cause and effect2. to stress the incidental over the fundamental3. to put the cart before the horse
颠倒黑白 顛倒黑白 diān dǎo hēi bái HSK 7–9 1. lit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately2. to misrepresent the facts3. to invert right and wrong
(idiom) to distort right and wrong; to deliberately mislead
1. to shift from one hand to the other2. to change hands (of merchandise)
1. to move2. to shift3. to exchange4. to buy and sell+1 条 +2 条 1. to start a narrative at the end (or midway), then proceed chronologically from the beginning2. to flash back3. flashback (in a novel, movie etc)
1. barb2. barbed tip (e.g. of fishhook)
1. to flow backwards (of water, because of flood, tide, wind etc)2. reverse flow3. to back up (sewage)
to reflect (producing an inverted image)
1. to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong2. to try to turn back history3. a perverse way of doing things
three-shift system (work rostering)
1. lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering2. fig. gigantic3. of spectacular significance
1. to harp on2. over and over3. merely ring changes on a few terms
1. lit. to hang upside down2. fig. in dire straits
1. speculation by officials2. profiteering by government employees3. bureaucratic turpitude
1. (coll.) a profiteer2. (business) wheeler-dealer
1. to drive in reverse2. fig. to take a backward step3. retrogressive4. trying to turn the clock back+1 条 1. to buy and sell at a profit2. to speculate
(linguistics) to invert (word order)
1. to change shifts2. to work in turns
(of cereal crops) to collapse and lie flat
to shift holidays, taking a weekday off
1. to transfer grain from a store (e.g. to sun it)2. voice breaking (of male opera singer in puberty)
1. (of a singer) to lose one's voice2. (male opera singer's) voice change (at puberty)
to collapse (of building)
1. reverse order2. inverted order
1. to play the market2. to speculate (on financial markets)3. to profiteer
1. to take turns2. to rotate (responsibility)
1. to place upside down2. to play (a video) backwards
1. to take turns (responsibility)2. to replace
1. to fall (from power)2. in decline3. unlucky
trichiasis (ingrown eyelashes)
1. to empty (a bag)2. to turn inside out3. to turn out
1. to turn over manure2. fig. to offend others by endlessly repeating unpleasant remarks
1. to lie down2. to drop dead