打通
dǎ tōng
Pinyin
Definition
打通
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- to open access
- to establish contact
- to remove a block
- to put through (a phone connection)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 dozen (loanword)
- 1 to open
- 2 to show (a ticket)
- 3 to turn on
- 4 to switch on
- 1 common
- 2 ordinary
- 3 general
- 4 average
- 1 to go through
- 2 to know well
- 3 (suffix) expert
- 4 to connect
- 5 to communicate
- 6 open
- 7 to clear
- 8 classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc
Idioms (20)
一炮打响
- 1 to win instant success (idiom)
- 2 to start off successfully
一窍不通
- 1 lit. doesn't (even) enter a single aperture (of one's head)
- 2 I don't understand a word (idiom)
- 3 it's all Greek to me
一网打尽
- 1 lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom)
- 2 fig. to scoop up the whole lot
- 3 to capture them all in one go
一通百通
- 1 grasp this fundamental point and all the rest will follow (idiom)
三天不打,上房揭瓦
- 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
- 2 spare the rod, spoil the child
Sample Sentences
和平合作。公元前一百四十多年的中国汉代,一支从长安出发的和平使团,开始打通东方通往西方的道路,完成了“凿空之旅"这就是著名的张骞出使西域。
Peaceful cooperation. In the Han Dynasty, before 140BC, a peaceful delegation set forth from Changan, and started to open up a road from the East to the West, completing a journey of pioneership, the renowned diplomatic mission to the Western regions undertaken by Zhang Qian.
这里是山区,信号不好,电话很难打通。
This is a mountainous area. Reception isn't very good. It's hard to make a call.
那这个待定吧。唉,你说我们把阳台打通好不好?
Then let's hold off on that decision for now. Hey, what do you think about tearing down these walls and extending the room into the balcony?
好,我看看。上面说,空心线的部分可以打通,实线的是承重墙,不能砸。哎,阳台在哪儿?怎么找不到?
Okay, I'll take a look. It says on here that the hollow-lined parts can be opened up and that the solid lines are bearing walls that can't be torn down. Hey, where's the balcony? How come I can't find it?
中央没有忘记这个地方,一定把因灾受伤的群众解救出来。公路不通,我们就用飞机把伤员运出去,进行救治。现在我们正在想方设法,调运飞机。今天上午已经运出五十多名。我们还要加大运量,使更多的伤员得到救治。另外我们在组织施工力量,来打通公路,使灾区的恢复重建工作能够顺利进行。
开个玩笑嘛,不过老实说,西藏现在的投资环境真的有了很大的改善,除了交通比以前便利外,政府还有一系列的优惠政策吸引投资。而且西藏要是开发好了,就可以打通和印度、尼泊尔等南亚国家的经贸通路,这也是很多投资者看中西藏的一个原因。