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VERB
逆轉，徹底改變（決定、政策、趨勢等）
When someone or something reverses a decision, policy, or trend, they change it to the opposite decision, policy, or trend.
例句
They have made it clear they will not reverse the decision to increase prices...
他們已經明確表示不會更改提價的決定。
The rise, the first in 10 months, reversed the downward trend in Belgium's jobless rate.
10個月來失業率的首次上升逆轉了比利時失業率持續下降的趨勢。
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VERB
顛倒，反轉（事物的順序）
If you reverse the order of a set of things, you arrange them in the opposite order, so that the first thing comes last.
例句
In the squares place a penny, nickel, dime and quarter in that order. The object is to reverse the order of these coins...
在這些方塊中按順序放置1分、5分、10分和25分的硬幣各一枚。目標是顛倒這些硬幣的順序。
The normal word order is reversed in passive sentences.
正常詞序在被動句中是顛倒的。
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VERB
交換，互換（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.
例句
He reversed the position of the two stamps.
他將兩枚郵票的位置調換了一下。
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V-ERG
倒（車）
When a car reverses or when you reverse it, the car is driven backwards.
例句
Another car reversed out of the drive...
另一輛車倒出了車道。
He reversed and drove away...
他把車倒出來，開走了。
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N-UNCOUNT
倒擋;倒車
If your car is in reverse, you have changed gear so that you can drive it backwards.
例句
He lurched the car in reverse along the ruts to the access road.
他順著車轍搖搖晃晃地將車倒到了支路上。
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ADJ
相反的
Reverse means opposite to what you expect or to what has just been described.
例句
The wrong attitude will have exactly the reverse effect.
錯誤的態度會產生完全相反的效果。
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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.
例句
There is absolutely no evidence at all that spectators want longer cricket matches. Quite the reverse...
完全沒有證據表明觀眾想看時間更長的板球比賽。情況恰恰相反。
This would lead one to expect a fat, dense and detailed autobiography. The reverse is true. The book is short and spare.
這會讓人以為是一本內容晦澀而詳盡的大部頭自傳。但正好相反，這本書簡短明了。
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N-COUNT
嚴重的失敗;挫折
A reverse is a serious failure or defeat.
例句
It's clear that the party of the former Prime Minister has suffered a major reverse.
顯然，前首相所在黨派遭受了重大的挫折。
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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.
例句
Cheques should be made payable to Country Living and your address written on the reverse.
支票抬頭必須寫“《鄉村生活》雜志”，你的地址應寫在背面。
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PHRASE
相反地;逆向地;顛倒地
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.
例句
Amis tells the story in reverse, from the moment the man dies...
埃米斯以倒敘的方式講述了這個故事，從這個男人死去的時候開始講起。
The downward trend went into reverse and the scores started to creep up again.
比分下降的趨勢發生逆轉，分數又開始逐漸上升了。
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PHRASE
打對方付費的電話
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.