| 词汇 | turn something upside down |
| 释义 | turn something upside downturn something upside down 1 → turn something inside out 2 a) to make a place very untidy when you are looking for something 把某处翻得乱七八糟 The burglars have turned our house upside down. 小偷把我们家翻了个底朝天。 b) to cause a lot of change and confusion in a situation or in someone’s life 给〔局面或某人的生活〕造成大变化[混乱] the story of a young girl whose life was turned upside down 讲一个年轻女孩生活遭遇重大变故的故事 Examples from the Corpus turn something upside down• The girl was turning everything upside down.• The history of implants has been equally painful; implants can shift or turn themselves upside down.• Yet with an appealing brew of nationalism and promise of democratic reform, Kostunica has since turned Yugoslav politics upside down.• I turn the box upside down and bring it out empty.• We could turn the glass upside down and sideways without having the water pour out because air pressure pushes in all directions.• They studied the map for a while, scratched their heads, turned it upside down and studied it some more.• A distorted religion has turned the world upside down, denying that anything ever existed before itself. → turn something upside down at upside down1(1) |
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