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re·vers
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复数:revers
noun
a folding back of a garment to reveal the facing or lining, as of a lapel.
a trim made in imitation of this.
French, literally, reverse, from Middle French, from revers, adjective
The first known use of revers was in 1831
1 It might get noised about that the Pontelliers had met with reverses, and were forced to conduct their ménage on a humbler scale than heretofore.
2 And, best of all, “World War Z,” directed by Marc Forster from a script with five credited authors, reverses the relentless can-we-top-this structure that makes even smart blockbusters feel bloated and dumb.
3 If the high court reverses the 9th Circuit’s decision, Latino advocacy groups say they will go back to court in Phoenix and seek to block the law on civil rights grounds.
4 The wider world seems to care more about the historic sufferings of black people, Jews and Irish Catholics than it does about their own modest reverses.
5 Here he reverses the equation, using his extraordinary empathy and his idiosyncratic rhythms and shadings to draw us, helplessly, into the orbit of a deceptively gentle character whose violent psychopathy bubbles just below the surface.
6 In 2017, it considered selling naloxone, a drug that reverses overdoses.
7 Ailey’s mental health was fragile toward the end of his life; Wignot shows crowds converging on sidewalks, but instead of having them walk normally, she reverses their steps.
8 “The Demonstration” reverses this: The crowd dashes frantically toward the top of the image; advancing police not yet in the picture will soon fill the white, empty street lower down.
9 The US Food and Drug Administration has approved an easy-to-use version of the lifesaving drug that reverses heroin and prescription painkiller overdoses.
10 Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reverses a 2012 decision from the Federal Communications Commission, which said that Comcast Cable Communications LLC unfairly discriminated against the rival network.
11 Ms. McKeon said the company’s new model “not only reverses a decade-long trend of debilitating deficits, but — equally important — provides tremendous artistic opportunity and a clear artistic vision for moving forward.”
12 But, unlike Brent, he reverses course, stunning at warp speed—lunging, legs, arms, foil extending, then retreating.
13 As comedy, it’s masterful — there’s tension, irony and, when the car stops and reverses to retrieve some litter, a punch line that brings down the house.
14 The heroine jumps, turns, reverses into arabesque, and we know just what she’s saying each time because of the context and the timing.
15 But as in 1848, short-term reverses are not necessarily an indicator of long-term prospects.
16 Then, once parents hit 40, the relationship reverses and people with children are cheerier than those without.
17 They absorb her into their amoebic, elastic undulations, an image that reverses itself at the end, when she slips back out the other side.
18 “The point which must be clearly understood is that the struggle is not over, and negotiations themselves are a theater of struggle, subject to advances and reverses as any other form of struggle.”
19 I think perhaps Liza accepted the world as she accepted the Bible, with all of its paradoxes and its reverses.
20 Her stories are full of satisfying reverses and breathtaking passages of dazzlingly precise, virtuosic writing.