1WRONG/INCORRECTwith the top at the bottom and the bottom at the top 倒置地,颠倒地
To get the plant out of the pot, turn it upside down and give it a gentle knock.
如果要把植物从盆里取出来,就把花盆翻过来,轻轻敲一下。
2turn something upside down
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 appealingbrew of nationalism and promise of democraticreform, 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 pressurepushes in all directions.• They studied the map for a while, scratched their heads, turned it upside down and studied it some more.• A distortedreligion has turned the world upside down, denying that anything ever existed before itself.