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Trad. 逆鱗
- (Chinese legend) a patch of scales on a dragon's neck that grow in the opposite direction, which when touched enrages the dragon
- (fig.) sensitive subject or trigger issue that provokes a strong emotional reaction when sb's views on it are challenged
Trad. 違逆
- to disobey
- to defy an edict
- to violate
- to go against
- to run counter to
Trad. 逆倫
- unnatural relationship (parricide, incest etc)
- unfilial conduct
- against social morals
- backlighting; light coming from behind the subject (esp. in photography)
- (astrology) Mercury retrograde (abbr. for 水星逆行[shui3 xing1 ni4 xing2]); (coll.) to have a period of bad luck
- (TCM) water retention in the abdomen causing the vomiting of liquids as soon as one drinks
- (psychology) adversity quotient (abbr. for 逆境商數|逆境商数[ni4 jing4 shang1 shu4])
- (literary) to be in defiance of the natural order
- (coll.) extraordinary; incredible
- against the stream
- adverse current
- a countercurrent
- fig. reactionary tendency
- to go against the trend
Trad. 逆襲
- to counterattack; to strike back
- (neologism c. 2008) (of an underdog) to go on the offensive; to make an improbable comeback
Trad. 逆反應
- reverse reaction
- counterreaction
- inverse response
Trad. 逆斷層
- reverse fault (geology)
- compression fault, where one block pushes over the other at dip of less than 45 degrees
Trad. 逆生長
- to seem to grow younger
- to regain one's youthful looks
Trad. 誅暴討逆
- to wipe out the villains (e.g. insurgents, or people of another race)
Trad. 違天逆理
- lit. violating heaven and reason (idiom); immoral character
- disgraceful (of behavior that is unfilial, rebellious or otherwise in grave breach of the norms of society)
Trad. 貿易逆差
- trade deficit
- adverse trade balance
Trad. 噯氣嘔逆
- belching and retching counterflow (medical term)
- to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong
- to try to turn back history
- a perverse way of doing things
Trad. 逆來順受
- to resign oneself to adversity (idiom); to grin and bear it
- to submit meekly to insults, maltreatment, humiliation etc
- lit. navigating a boat against the current (idiom)
- fig. in a tough environment (one needs to work hard)
- to sail against the current
- (fig.) to go against the flow
- speech that grates on the ear (idiom); bitter truths
- home truths (that one does not want to hear)
- to go against the tide (idiom); to do things all wrong
- to try to turn back history
- a perverse way of doing things
Trad. 逆轉錄病毒
- reverse transcription virus
- retrovirus
Trad. 順我者昌逆我者亡
- submit to me and prosper, or oppose me and perish
Trad. 逆水行舟，不進則退
- like rowing a boat upstream, if you stop moving forward you fall back (idiom)