「幡」通「翻」。參見「幡然」「幡幡」。
《漢書·禮樂志二》:「﹝鳳皇﹞幡比翅回集,貳雙飛常羊。」
《史記·高祖本紀》:「﹝關中﹞地埶便利,其以下兵於諸侯,譬猶居高屋之上建瓴水也。」裴駰集解引如淳曰:「瓴,盛水瓶也。居高屋之上而幡瓴水,言其向下之勢易也。建音蹇。」參見「建瓴」「破竹建瓴」。

a pair of celestial avians descend, flap its wings, revolve around and linger over the open altar
with a strategic high ground, combating enemies lower down is akin to turning over a jar of water, down it goes

翻/幡/建/揵
將本書揵去第十頁·把課本翻到第十頁 turn your textbook to page 10
鹹魚翻生 a salted fish has sprung alive > turns from flop to top
工廈翻新 turn over abandoned buildings
翻轉間屋都抄唔到 turned the whole house over and could not find it
反轉豬肚一包屎

反叛·翻叛 turn/revolt against, grow disaffected
反思·翻思 think it over, turn it over in mind
翻本 turn even from a loss (of gambling or derivatives)
翻案·平反 overturn a verdict, restore justice and dignity, rehabilitate
翻風·打風
打大翻·打風車 turn somersaults or cartwheels
幡然省悟·恍然悔悟

《孟子·萬章上》︰「湯三使往聘之。既而幡然改曰:『與我處畎畝之中,由是以樂堯舜之道,吾豈若使是君為堯舜之君哉!』」
soon he turned his stance over / flipped his mind and said ...

《荀子·大略》︰「君子之學如蛻,幡然遷之。」楊倞注云:「如蟬蛻也。幡與翻同。」

《荀子·彊國》:「俄而天下倜然舉去桀、紂而犇湯、武,反然舉惡桀、紂而貴湯、武,是何也?」楊倞注云:「反音翻。翻然,改變貌。」

marked by a flip-flop or turnabout
flutter of leaves or flags in the wind
beating of wings > fly, rise, climb
lashing of tongues > slander, criticise
flagging or wilting of discipline, lost of inhibition

#spin-off
小兒好反斗
個啲細伩仔實首好反
《西湖二集·愚郡守玉殿生春》:「從來道:『寧養頑子,莫養呆子。』那頑子翻天攪地,目下雖然菾奊𡔢,日後定有升騰的日子。」

#no cross, no crown
一番考驗 波折 打量 探訪 研究 整頓

《大正藏·諸宗部·黃檗斷際禪師宛陵錄》
塵勞迥脫事非常,緊把繩頭做一場。
不是一翻寒徹骨,爭得梅花撲鼻香。

《鬼谷子·兩頭鉗》:「不是一翻剛膽志,如何平地上雲霄。」