reverses

英 [rɪˈvɜːsɪz]

美 [rɪˈvɜːrsɪz]

n.  相反的情况(或事物); 后面; 背面; 反面; 倒挡
v.  颠倒; 彻底转变; 使完全相反; 撤销，废除(决定、法律等); 使反转; 使次序颠倒
reverse的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 逆转，彻底改变（决定、政策、趋势等）
  When someone or somethingreversesa decision, policy, or trend, they change it to the opposite decision, policy, or trend.
  1. 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。
  2. 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 youreversethe order of a set of things, you arrange them in the opposite order, so that the first thing comes last.
  1. 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。
  2. 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 youreversethe positions or functions of two things, you change them so that each thing has the position or function that the other one had.
  1. 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 carreversesor when youreverseit, the car is driven backwards.
  1. Another car reversed out of the drive...
     另一辆车倒出了车道。
  2. He reversed and drove away...
     他把车倒出来，开走了。
  3. 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 isin reverse, you have changed gear so that you can drive it backwards.
  1. 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
  Reversemeans opposite to what you expect or to what has just been described.
  1. 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 isthe reverseof another, you are emphasizing that the first thing is the complete opposite of the second thing.
  1. 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。
  2. 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
  Areverseis a serious failure or defeat.
  1. 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 reverseorthe reverse sideof a flat object which has two sides is the less important or the other side.
  1. 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 happensin reverseor goesinto reverse, things happen in the opposite way to what usually happens or to what has been happening.
  1. 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。
  2. 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 youreverse the chargeswhen 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

双语例句

• For Earth, attaining Bodhisattva reverses the polarities in her global astrological chart.
  对地球而言，获得菩萨级别振动将逆转她全球星象图的极性。
• Reverses the value of its argument.
  颠倒其参数的值。
• They attributed the blame for the reverses to their superiors.
  他们认为挫折的责任在于他们的上级。
• To observe the society by this view we can find that the inharmony of the capitalist society is caused by that it reverses the relation of labor and society, which lets the labor revolve around society but not lets the society revolve around labor.
  用这个观点来观察社会，就可以发现，资本主义及其他阶级社会之所以不和谐，就在于颠倒了劳动与社会的关系，不是让社会围绕劳动旋转，而是让劳动围绕社会旋转。
• The researchers say that it is because it reverses the fatiguing effects of overnight caffeine withdrawal.
  研究人员称，原因很可能是这杯咖啡扭转了一夜没有咖啡因供给所带来的“疲惫效应”。
• Occasionally, however, the dipole part of the field reverses, causing the locations of the north and south magnetic poles to switch.
  不过，有时候磁场的偶极部分会倒转，导致了北磁极和南磁极的位置转换。
• It reverses the order of modifiers, or simply sentence structure in two connected, called parallel, clauses.
  它颠倒了修饰词顺序，或在两个连接中被称为平行、条目式的简单句子结构。
• Then, 12 hours later, this reverses.
  然后，12小时以后，掉个个。
• In 2009, governments reasserted a degree of control over markets after the humiliating reverses of 2008.
  在2008年令人难堪的倒退后，政府在2009年重新夺回了对市场一定程度的控制权。
• Oh, you've had minor reverses in school or love, but you haven't failed meaningfully.
  噢，你可能在学校或爱情上有些小的不幸，但你没有有意义地失败过。