颠倒

• 拼音: diān dǎo
• 汉字拆解: 颠 = 真 + 页 (top, apex; to topple); 倒 = 亻+ 到 (upside down, reversed)

含义

To invert; to turn upside down; to reverse the order or relationship of things.

Used literally (物体颠倒 — object turned upside down) and figuratively (颠倒是非 — to invert right and wrong; confuse truth and falsehood). The figurative sense is very common in formal and moral discourse, expressing distortion of facts or values.

例句

1. 这幅画故意将人物与背景颠倒，创造出强烈的视觉冲击效果。
2. 有些人为了一己私利，不惜颠倒是非，混淆视听，令人深感忧虑。
3. 历史的真相不应被颠倒，任何歪曲史实的行为都应受到学界的严肃批评。

用法指南

语境: moral discourse, logic, rhetoric, everyday speech

语气: critical

正确说法

• 该报道被批评人士指控颠倒事实，将受害者塑造为加害者，引发了公众的强烈反弹。(The report was accused by critics of inverting the facts, portraying the victim as the perpetrator, triggering strong public backlash.)
• 逻辑思维训练的核心目标之一，就是培养学生识别和抵制颠倒因果的谬误推理。(One of the core objectives of logical thinking training is to cultivate students' ability to identify and resist fallacious reasoning that inverts cause and effect.)

错误说法

• 颠倒过来 — slightly redundant as 颠倒 already implies reversal; say 颠倒 or 倒过来 depending on context

起源与历史

颠 (top/summit; to fall) + 倒 (upside down, reversed)

文化背景

世代: All ages

社会背景: Universal