1. In comparison to the life span this relationship is "inverted": the larger the organism the lower its metabolic rate. 与寿命相比，这种关系是“反向的”：生物体越大，其代谢率越低。
2. Only direct speech should go inside inverted commas. 只有直接引语应放在引号内。
3. The manager showed us to our 'luxury apartment', in inverted commas. 经理带我们去看了我们所谓的“豪华单元”。
4. They waited until the babies got bored and inverted their gaze from the face. 他们一直等到婴儿们都厌烦了，才把目光从婴儿的脸上移开。
5. "The traditional rule was it's safer to stay where you are, but that's been fundamentally inverted," says one headhunter. “传统的规则是待在原地更安全，但这一规则已发生了根本性的颠覆。”一位猎头表示。
