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- an acrobatic movement in which a person turns head over heels in the air or on the ground and lands or finishes on their feet翻筋斗, 空翻：
a backward somersault
后空翻（或后滚翻）
figurative 〈喻〉Paula's stomach turned a somersault.
葆拉胃里翻江倒海。
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- figurative a dramatic upset or reversal of policy or opinion〈喻〉（政策或观点的）180度大转变。
no obj.
- perform such an acrobatic feat, or make a similar movement accidentally翻筋斗：
his car somersaulted into a ditch.
他的车翻到了沟里。
词源
mid 16th cent. (as a noun)： from Old French sombresault, from Provençal sobresaut, from sobre 'above'+saut 'leap'.