to repeat a lesson; to learn by heart; to endorse a check
to have one's back against; to lean against; to be backed up by (a mountain etc)
to be in a poor light; to do sth with one's back to the light; to stand in one's own light
behind; back; rear; at the back; in the rear; behind somebody's back
backpack; knapsack; rucksack
secretly; in private; behind someone's back
with back to the mountain (favored location)
abandon; desert; renounce
rear view; figure seen from behind; view of the back (of a person or object)
sleeveless garment (vest, waistcoat, singlet, tank top etc)
background; backdrop; context
(slang) (usu. of a woman) sb who looks stunning from behind; sb who has a great figure but not necessarily an attractive face; abbr. for
背影杀手
to stop breathing (as a medical condition); (fig.) to pass out (in anger); to have a stroke
to depart from; to deviate from; deviation
to break an agreement; to go back on one's word; to fail to keep one's promise
the back of the human body
to recite; to repeat from memory
to turn away; to turn one's back to; (gymnastics etc) backspin
back (rear part of the torso); back (the area of a vertebrate animal's body on either side of the backbone); (anatomy) dorsum
the back; the reverse side; the wrong side
behind sb's back; privately; on the sly
with one's hands clasped behind one's back
latissimus dorsi muscle (back of the chest)
with back to the mountain and facing the water (favored location)
(slang) (usu. of a woman) sb who looks stunning from behind; sb who has a great figure but not necessarily an attractive face; abbr. to
背杀
background blurring (photography)
background music (BGM); soundtrack; musical setting
the back (human anatomy); the back part of sth
to serve as a sacrificial victim; to suffer for sb else; scapegoat; to share sb's fate
to hunch over; to stoop; to arch one's back (upward)
to massage sb's back by pounding it lightly with one's fists
harness pad (on draught animal)
homosexual, cf Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain
(dialect) to be out of luck
to mount a picture; also written
裱褙
to turn one's back; to turn around; (fig.) change in a very short time
to go against; to be contrary to; to violate
halterneck; backless (garment)
hunchbacked; stooping; hunchback
with one's hands behind one's back
to receive oral sex from a prostitute
to have sex with a prostitute
to be masturbated by a prostitute
(bird species of China) merlin (Falco columbarius)
(bird species of China) slaty-backed gull (Larus schistisagus)
(bird species of China) grey-backed thrush (Turdus hortulorum)
(dialect) to be out of luck
(coll.) to have a stroke of bad luck
(bird species of China) eastern cattle egret (Bubulcus coromandus)
humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
split-leaf philodendron; Monstera deliciosa
to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards)
(bird species of China) plain-backed thrush (Zoothera mollissima)
camisole (women's garment)
(bird species of China) canvasback (Aythya valisineria)
slouch; stoop; poor posture
(bird species of China) barred laughingthrush (Garrulax lunulatus)
(bird species of China) greater scaup (Aythya marila)
(bird species of China) spotted forktail (Enicurus maculatus)
(bird species of China) dark-rumped swift (Apus acuticauda)
(bird species of China) Burmese shrike (Lanius collurioides)
(bird species of China) rufous-backed sibia (Heterophasia annectans)
(bird species of China) maroon-backed accentor (Prunella immaculata)
(bird species of China) long-tailed shrike (Lanius schach)
(bird species of China) black-tailed crake (Porzana bicolor)
(bird species of China) Blanford's snowfinch (Pyrgilauda blanfordi)
to learn by rote; to mechanically memorize
(bird species of China) grey-backed shrike (Lanius tephronotus)
(bird species of China) white-shouldered starling (Sturnia sinensis)
(bird species of China) slaty-backed forktail (Enicurus schistaceus)
waist of a bear and back of a tiger; tough and stocky build
(bird species of China) white-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis)
(bird species of China) common rock thrush (Monticola saxatilis)
to leave one's homeplace (to find work, flee disaster etc)
(bird species of China) chestnut-cheeked starling (Agropsar philippensis)
(bird species of China) von Schrenck's bittern (Ixobrychus eurhythmus)
(bird species of China) red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio)
(bird species of China) green-backed flycatcher (Ficedula elisae)
(bird species of China) green-backed tit (Parus monticolus)
(bird species of China) fulvous-chested jungle flycatcher (Rhinomyias olivacea)
(bird species of China) cinereous tit (Parus cinereus)
back of a tiger and waist of a bear; tough and stocky build
(bird species of China) bar-winged flycatcher-shrike (Hemipus picatus)
in violation of contract and good faith
debt as heavy as a mountain on a turtle's back
(bird species of China) black-backed forktail (Enicurus immaculatus)
(lit.) chest sticking to back; (fig.) famished; (of several persons) packed chest to back
(bird species of China) marsh grassbird (Locustella pryeri)
(bird species of China) Japanese cormorant (Phalacrocorax capillatus)
(bird species of China) scarlet-backed flowerpecker (Dicaeum cruentatum)
(bird species of China) Gould's shortwing (Heteroxenicus stellatus)
(bird species of China) chestnut bulbul (Hemixos castanonotus)
(bird species of China) Kessler's thrush (Turdus kessleri)
(bird species of China) white-backed woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos)
(bird species of China) rufous-backed redstart (Phoenicurus erythronotus)
(bird species of China) streaked spiderhunter (Arachnothera magna)
(bird species of China) blue-rumped pitta (Hydrornis soror)
(bird species of China) ground tit (Pseudopodoces humilis)
(bird species of China) Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis)
(bird species of China) greater flameback (Chrysocolaptes lucidus)
(bird species of China) common flameback (Dinopium javanense)
face to the ground, back to the sky