a)OPPOSITE/REVERSEto pull a piece of clothing, bag etc so that the inside is facing out 把〔衣服、包等〕里朝外翻
Turn the sweater inside out before you wash it.
把毛衣翻过面来洗。
b) (also turn something upside down)LOOK FOR to search everywhere for something, in a way that makes a place very untidy 到处寻找某物,把某物翻个底朝天
Thieves had turned the house upside down.
小偷把房子翻了个底朝天。
c) (also turn something upside down/turn something on its head) to completely change the way that something is done, organized, thought about etc 彻底改变
New approaches to marketing turn old practices upside down.
新的营销方式彻底改变了以前的做法。
Her opinion of him had been turned on its head.
她对他的看法彻底改变了。
Examples from the Corpus
turn something inside out• This briefscene, so unexpected and devastating, turns Blue inside out.• I've turned the house upside down looking for that book!• Lukens' theories have turned the financial world upside down.• Declaring the shirtoffensive, she ordered Jeffrey to take it off or turn it inside out.• Hayward Wiggins launched a kids' summer enrichment program nine years ago, he turned the rules inside out.• I turned my collar inside out.• In effect, it turns the nozzle inside out.• Objectivism thus turns existentialism inside out.• The shipleaped and juddered as if trying to turn to inside out.• Turn the pants inside out before you wash them.