Results for “倒”

(linguistics) to invert (word order)

(linguistics) inverted sentence

chamfer / bevel

to count down / countdown

to buy and sell at a profit / to speculate

to sustain loss in trade

unrecoverable debt / bad debt / to evade debt

reverse gear

(neologism c. 2006) (of circumstances) to stimulate (change, esp. innovation, reform etc)

to have bad luck

the wrong way round (back to front, inside out etc)

barb / (football) bicycle kick / overhead kick

locked in (with the door locked from the outside)

to reverse a vehicle / to drive backwards

(med.) to be impotent

(coll.) poor devil / unfortunate man

erhua variant of 倒霉蛋[dǎo méi dàn]

to lie down / to die

to move / to shift / to exchange / to buy and sell / peddling

to be entirely on one side / one-sided / lopsided / partisan / overwhelmingly on one side

three-shift system (work rostering)

roly-poly toy

(idiom) to exhaust all one has / to leave no stone unturned / to try one's best

troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom) / a beaten army in total collapse

but on the contrary / but unexpectedly

to stump / to baffle

to boo or jeer (as a sign of displeasure at an actor)

overwhelming

speculation by officials / profiteering by government employees / bureaucratic turpitude

to collapse / to crash down / to fall down in a heap

see 想得美[xiǎng de měi]

handstand

to engage in speculation and profiteering

to laugh until it hurts / to laugh heartily

lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom) / earth-shattering / fig. gigantic / of spectacular significance

to knock down / to mow down

to fall down

to knock over / to knock down / to lay flat / to fell / to bring down

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

to lean unsteadily from side to side (idiom) / to sway / (of buildings etc) to lean at a crazy angle