Results for “覆”

to reply to a letter

to cover / to overflow / to overturn / to capsize

to cover

to answer / to reply / Reply to: (in email header)

repeatedly / over and over / to upend / unstable / to come and go / (of an illness) to return

to topple (i.e. knock over) / to capsize / fig. to overturn (a regime, by plotting or subversion) / to undermine / to subvert

the tracks of a cart that overturned / (fig.) a path that led to failure in the past

destruction

lit. to follow in the tracks of an overturned cart (idiom) / fig. to follow a path that led to failure in the past / to repeat a disastrous mistake

sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom) / fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head

sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom) / fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head

unstable / erratic / changeable / fickle

to toss and turn (sleeplessly) / again and again

to produce clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another (idiom) / fig. to shift one's ground / tricky and inconstant / to make love

total defeat of an army (idiom) / fig. a complete wipeout

repetitive

fall (of an empire)

lit. when the nest is upset no egg is left intact (idiom) / fig. when one falls in disgrace the whole family is doomed

lit. when the nest overturns no egg remains intact / no member escapes unscathed from a family disaster (idiom)

to review / to reexamine / review

spilt water is difficult to retrieve (idiom) / it's no use crying over spilt milk / what's done is done and can't be reversed / the damage is done / once divorced, there's no reuniting

annihilated / capsized

to overlap / to overlay / cascaded (thermodynamic cycle)

raspberry

membrane covering sth / coating

mulch

coverage (proportion covered)

coverage

to inform

to capsize / to collapse / to overturn / to overthrow / to undermine

lit. the cart in front overturns, a warning to the following cart (idiom) / fig. draw lesson from the failure of one's predecessor / learn from past mistake / once bitten twice shy

to reply (by letter, email etc) / reply / answer

to issue an official written reply (in response to a subordinate's report or request)

anticapsizing

(botany) convolvulvus / Flos Inulae (Chinese herb)

lit. water may keep the boat afloat but may also sink it (proverb) / fig. the people can support a regime or overturn it / if sth is used properly, one can benefit from it, otherwise it can do harm / things can be double-edged

incitement to subvert state power (criminal charge used to gag free speech)

crime of conspiring to overthrow the state

expecting your reply (epistolary style)

please answer (epistolary style)