to turn back; to reverse

adversity; predicament

backwards; reverse direction

to go the wrong way; to go against one-way traffic regulation

against the stream; adverse current; a countercurrent; fig. reactionary tendency; to go against the trend

to go against the wind; contrary wind; a headwind

(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

traitor's property; breech delivery

unnatural relationship (parricide, incest etc); unfilial conduct; against social morals

backlighting; light coming from behind the subject (esp. in photography)

to go against the trend

rebellious behavior; opposite; ob-

reversing (e.g. electric current)

(psychology) adversity quotient (abbr. for 逆境商數|逆境商数[ni4 jing4 shang1 shu4])

oxymoron

(literary) to be in defiance of the natural order; (coll.) extraordinary; incredible

invaders (insulting term); foreign aggressors

unfilial son

adverse trade balance; trade deficit

inverse order

unfavorable; undesired

to foresee; to predict

(geology) anaclinal

guest-house; inn

against the current; upstream

(of an engine) to backfire

unpleasant to hear; grates on the ear (of home truths)

rebellious minister

to counterattack; to strike back; (neologism, attested by 2008) (of an underdog) to go on the offensive; to make an improbable comeback

renegade; traitor and bandit

bad luck; unlucky fate

anti-aging

reverse reaction; counterreaction; inverse response

(electronics) inverter

inverted turn (ornament in music)

converse theorem (math.)

orca; killer whale (Orcinus orca)

reverse fault (geology); compression fault, where one block pushes over the other at dip of less than 45 degrees

anticlockwise; counterclockwise

inverse map (math.)

reverse osmosis

to seem to grow younger; to regain one's youthful looks

inverse operation; inverse calculation

reverse psychology

reverse engineering

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 go back to the source

to sail against the current; (fig.) to go against the flow