reverse
[ADJ, NOUN, VERB]
1. 相反的
Reverse means opposite from what you expect or to what has just been described.
近义词
双语例句
例：The wrong attitude will have exactly the reverse effect.
这种错误的态度会得到恰好相反的结果。
ADJ. 形容词
1. [U 不可数名词] （汽车的）倒档
If your car is in reverse, you have changed gears so that you can drive it backwards.
双语例句
例：He lurched the car in reverse along the ruts to the access road.
他沿着车辙颠簸着倒行到通行道。
2. [SING 单数型名词] 相反物 , 相反面
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.
双语例句
例：He was not at all jolly. Quite the reverse.
他一点儿也不高兴。恰恰相反。
3. [SING 单数型名词] 背面 , 反面
The reverse or the reverse side of a flat object which has two sides is the less important or the other side.
近义词
双语例句
例：A chart on the reverse of this letter highlights your savings.
这封信背面的图表着重写明了你的存款情况。
NOUN. 名词
reverse the charges
1. （打电话时）让对方付费 , 受话人付费
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 reverse
1. 朝相反方向 , 反向地（发展）
If something happens in reverse or goes into reverse, things happen in the opposite way from what usually happens or from what has been happening.
双语例句
例：Amis tells the story in reverse, from the moment the man dies.
埃米斯以倒叙方式讲这个故事，从那个男人死去的时候开始讲起。
PHRASE. 习语
reverses , reversing , reversed
1. [T 及物动词] 使（决定、政策或趋势）转向 , 逆转
When someone or something reverses a decision, policy, or trend, they change it to the opposite decision, policy, or trend.
双语例句
例：They have made it clear they will not reverse the decision to increase prices.
他们已经明确表示不会为了提高价格而改变这一决定。
例：The rise, the first in 10 months, reversed the downward trend in Belgium's jobless rate.
10个月内的第一次增长扭转了比利时失业率下降的趋势。
2. [T 及物动词] 颠倒（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.
双语例句
例：Because the normal word order is reversed in passive sentences, they are sometimes hard to follow.
由于被动句颠倒了正常的语序，所以有时很难理解。
3. [T 及物动词] 调换（位置或功能）
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.
双语例句
例：He reversed the position of the two stamps.
他调换了两张邮票的位置。
4. [I 不及物动词] 倒（车） , （车）倒过来
When a car reverses or when you reverse it, the car is driven backwards.
VERB. 动词
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