粵

反faan2彈daan6

simp反弹
faan2 daan6fǎn tán

English

  1. to bounce
  2. (physically) to rebound; to react
  3. to bounce back
  4. to rebound to mental pressure
  5. to boomerang
  6. (of financial terms) to rebound
  7. to ricochet
  8. rebound (of stock market etc)
  9. bounce
  10. backlash
  11. negative repercussions

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 物理學上指作用於物體嘅力大小相等,而喺作用嘅同一時間內,產生相等而相反嘅動量
  2. 因為環境對心理構成嘅壓力而反感、不忿
  3. 金融術語。喺空頭市場裏,由於股價、匯價大幅下跌已有一段時間,由低檔暫時回升

Examples

  • 佢掟個波埋牆,結果個波反彈打中自己。

    He throws the ball to a wall where it rebounds and hits himself. ----

  • 股市經過多日跌勢,今日反彈回升至日前高位。

    The stock market saw a downward trend for the last few days, but today it rebounded to reach a previous day's high.

  • 公司唔合理噉加班,引起咗部分員工情緒上嘅反彈。

    The unreasonable arrangement of overtime work by the company irritated a number of its staff. ----

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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