- VERB 逆转,彻底改变(决定、政策、趋势等)
When someone or something reverses a decision, policy, or trend, they change it to the opposite decision, policy, or trend.
- They have made it clear they will not reverse the decision to increase prices...
他们已经明确表示不会更改提价的决定。 - The rise, the first in 10 months, reversed the downward trend in Belgium's jobless rate.
10个月来失业率的首次上升逆转了比利时失业率持续下降的趋势。
- VERB 颠倒,反转(事物的顺序)
If you reverse the order of a set of things, you arrange them in the opposite order, so that the first thing comes last.
- In the squares place a penny, nickel, dime and quarter in that order. The object is to reverse the order of these coins...
在这些方块中按顺序放置1分、5分、10分和25分的硬币各一枚。目标是颠倒这些硬币的顺序。 - The normal word order is reversed in passive sentences.
正常词序在被动句中是颠倒的。
- VERB 交换,互换(位置、功能)
If you reverse the positions or functions of two things, you change them so that each thing has the position or function that the other one had.
- He reversed the position of the two stamps.
他将两枚邮票的位置调换了一下。
- V-ERG 倒(车)
When a car reverses or when you reverse it, the car is driven backwards.
- Another car reversed out of the drive...
另一辆车倒出了车道。 - He reversed and drove away...
他把车倒出来,开走了。 - He reversed his car straight at the policeman.
他径直把车倒向警察。
in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用back up
- N-UNCOUNT 倒挡;倒车
If your car is in reverse, you have changed gear so that you can drive it backwards.
- He lurched the car in reverse along the ruts to the access road.
他顺着车辙摇摇晃晃地将车倒到了支路上。
- ADJ 相反的
Reverse means opposite to what you expect or to what has just been described.
- The wrong attitude will have exactly the reverse effect.
错误的态度会产生完全相反的效果。
- N-SING 完全相反;正相反
If you say that one thing is the reverse of another, you are emphasizing that the first thing is the complete opposite of the second thing.
- There is absolutely no evidence at all that spectators want longer cricket matches. Quite the reverse...
完全没有证据表明观众想看时间更长的板球比赛。情况恰恰相反。 - This would lead one to expect a fat, dense and detailed autobiography. The reverse is true. The book is short and spare.
这会让人以为是一本内容晦涩而详尽的大部头自传。但正好相反,这本书简短明了。
- N-COUNT 严重的失败;挫折
A reverse is a serious failure or defeat.
- It's clear that the party of the former Prime Minister has suffered a major reverse.
显然,前首相所在党派遭受了重大的挫折。
- N-SING 反面;背面
The reverse or the reverse side of a flat object which has two sides is the less important or the other side.
- Cheques should be made payable to Country Living and your address written on the reverse.
支票抬头必须写“《乡村生活》杂志”,你的地址应写在背面。
- PHRASE 相反地;逆向地;颠倒地
If something happens in reverse or goes into reverse, things happen in the opposite way to what usually happens or to what has been happening.
- Amis tells the story in reverse, from the moment the man dies...
埃米斯以倒叙的方式讲述了这个故事,从这个男人死去的时候开始讲起。 - The downward trend went into reverse and the scores started to creep up again.
比分下降的趋势发生逆转,分数又开始逐渐上升了。
- 打对方付费的电话
If you reverse the charges when you make a telephone call, the person who you are phoning pays the cost of the call and not you.
in AM, use 美国英语用 call collect