through1 /θruː/ ●●● S1 W1 prepositionprep , adverb → thru, threw1 door/passage etc 门/通道等ENTER into one side or end of an entrance, passage, hole etc and out of the other side or end 从一端至另一端,穿过,通过〔入口、通道、洞孔等〕 She smiled at him as he walked through the door. 他从门口进来时,她朝他笑了。
Water will be pumped through a pipe. 水将通过管子抽上来。
I managed to squeeze through a gap in the hedge. 我设法从篱笆上的一个缺口挤了过去。
They were suddenly plunged into darkness as the train went through a tunnel. 火车穿过隧道,他们顿时陷入黑暗之中。
There were people standing in the doorway and I couldn’t get through. 有人站在门口,我过不去。
through to I went through to the kitchen to see who was there. 我走到厨房去看看谁在那儿。
2 HOLEcutting/breaking 切/凿穿 cutting or breaking something, or making a hole from one side of it to the other 切断,切开;凿穿 A football came crashing through the window. 一个足球破窗飞了进来。
straight/right/clean through The bullet passed straight through his skull. 一颗子弹直穿他的头骨。
3 ENTERacross an area 穿过某地区 from one side of an area to the other or between a group of things 穿过,通过〔指经过某一地区或从一组物体中穿过〕 We passed through France on our way to Italy. 我们去意大利时途经法国。
We made our way through the village to the farm. 我们穿过村庄来到了农场。
The wind howled through the trees. 风呼啸着刮过树林。
He had to push his way through the crowd to get to her. 他不得不挤过人群才来到她身边。
Let me through – I’m a doctor. 让我过去——我是医生。
get through/make it through (=reach a place after a difficult journey) 〔艰难地〕到达,抵达 You’ll never get through – the snow’s two metres deep. 你根本到不了——雪有两米深。
Rescue teams have finally made it through to the survivors. 营救队伍终于抵达幸存者身边。
We drove right through the town centre. 我们开车径直穿过市中心。
Carry on straight through the village. 直接穿过这个村庄,继续往前。
4 SEEsee through STH 透过某物看 if you see something through glass, a window etc, you are on one side of the glass etc and it is on the other 透过〔玻璃、窗户等〕 I could see her through the window. 我透过窗户看到了她。
I could see right through the thin curtains. 我透过薄薄的窗帘看得一清二楚。
5 ENTERpast a place 经过某地 past a place where you are supposed to stop 通过〔应该停下的地方〕 It took us ages to get through passport control. 我们花了很长时间才通过护照查验处。
He drove straight through a red light. 他遇到红灯直接闯了过去。
6 DURINGtime 时间 during and to the end of a period of time 在整个期间,自始至终 The cold weather continued through the spring. 寒冷的天气持续了整个春天。
He slept right through the day. 他睡了一整天。
The fighting went on all through the night. 战斗持续了整夜。
7 DEAL WITHprocess/experience 过程/经历 from the beginning to the end of a process or experience 经过〔全部的过程或经历〕 The book guides you through the whole procedure of buying a house. 这本书可对购房提供全程指导。
When you have been through a terrible experience like that, it takes a long time to recover. 经历过那样可怕的事情,之后要花很长时间才能恢复过来。
It’s a miracle that these buildings came through the war undamaged. 这些建筑物在经历了这场战争后竟然没有受损,简直是个奇迹。
8 competitions 竞争 past one stage in a competition to the next stage 通过〔比赛的一个阶段而进入下一阶段〕through to This is the first time they’ve ever made it through to the final. 这是他们第一次打入决赛。
They didn’t even get through the first round of the contest. 他们甚至没能通过第一轮比赛。
9 BECAUSEbecause of STH 由于,因为 because of something 由于某事物 How many working days were lost through sickness last year? 去年因为员工生病损失了多少个工作日?
10 USE somethingby means of STH/SB 凭借某事/某人 by means of a particular method, service, person etc 以,凭借 She got her first job through an employment agency. 她通过职业介绍所得到了第一份工作。
a success that was achieved through co-operative effort and wise leadership 凭借齐心协力和英明领导而取得的成功
I heard about it through a friend. 我是从一个朋友那里听说此事的。
► see thesaurus at because 11 SCLparliament/congress 议会/国会 if a proposal passes through a parliament, it is agreed and accepted as a law 〔提案在议会上〕通过 A special bill was rushed through Congress to deal with the emergency. 国会紧急通过一项特殊议案,以应对这一突发事件。
12 UNTIL 直到May through June/Wednesday through Friday etc American EnglishAmEUNTIL from May until June, from Wednesday until Friday etc 从5月到6月/从星期三到星期五等 The store is open Monday through Saturday. 这家商店周一至周六营业。
13 halfway through (something) in the middle of an event or period of time (某事或某时段的)中途 I left halfway through the film. 我电影看了一半就离开了。
14 telephone 电话 British EnglishBrETCT connected to someone by telephone 〔电话〕接通 I tried phoning you, but I couldn’t get through. 我给你打过电话,但没打通。
Please hold the line and I’ll put you through. 请不要挂电话,我给你接过去。
through to Did you manage to get through to her? 你打通她的电话了吗?
15 COMPLETELY 完全地wet through/cooked through etc informalVERY completely wet, cooked etc 湿透了/煮透了等 You’re wet through. What on earth have you been doing? 你湿透了。你到底干什么了?
It should only take a few minutes to heat this through. 应该只要几分钟时间就能热透。
16 through and through COMPLETELYif someone is a particular type of person through and through, they are completely that type of person 完完全全地,彻底地 I’ll say one thing for Sandra – she’s a professional through and through. 我要为桑德拉说一句——她可是地地道道的专业人士。
through and through• After 30 years in Queensland, he felt he was an Australian through and through.• She might be on the stage, but she was a lady through and through.• The idea warmed her through and through.• Weeping with merriment, gleeful through and through, she never relaxed her grip.• Don't trust him. He's rotten through and through.• Einstein was a realist through and through.• Lofgren is a politician through and through.• But the world of the women is real through and through, and so are their appendages.• Dad was a rationalist through and through.• Einstein, of course, was a realist through and through.• I had always been a mischief-maker through and through, in full command of my impulses and desires.• Marilyn and Dan Quayle are Indiana, through and through. 17 ALL THE WAY 一路上through to London/Paris etc CONTINUE/NOT STOPas far as London, Paris etc 通往伦敦/巴黎等 Does this train go through to Glasgow? 这班火车开往格拉斯哥吗?
through to London/Paris etc• Miller was among the first to phone through to London and greet our guest's arrival from Moscow. 18 USE QUICKLY 快速使用get/go/run through something to use a lot of something quickly 快速而大量地使用某物 George Ward started smoking at the age of nine, and at one time he was getting through 80 a day. 乔治·沃德九岁就开始吸烟,一度每天要抽掉 80 支烟。
By the end of the year he had run through all the money inherited from his father. 到年底,他已经把从父亲那儿继承来的钱全部花光了。
straight/right/clean through• Jen woke me up around eight that night, asking if I was going to sleep straight through.• He had his hands on her waist, could feel the warmth throbbing right through her sweater.• He looked at her, waved her back into the chair and went straight through into the kitchen.• I don't think I slept right through that whole week.• But where music has been a constant right through the ages, cinema has been a product of its time.• For six years we lived under the threat that the M18 could be driven straight through the centre.• The 2. 05 percent attrition rate the agency had managed to maintain promised to go straight through the roof. straight through• Jen woke me up around eight that night, asking if I was going to sleep straight through.• I assumed she could sleep straight through a coughing fit.• Metaphorically speaking, you could see straight through him to the other side of the room.• It troubles me that though I read Gibbons's book straight through, I never before noticed a surf clam.• For six years we lived under the threat that the M18 could be driven straight through the centre.• At C. Mellings, Printers and Stationers she went straight through the shop and upstairs, and into her father's room.• She walked straight through the sitting-room and out into the sunshine.• This means they can move straight through woods and debris and such like. see right through• I make it like you can see right through it.• And when the sun hits just right, you can actually see right through the loudspeakers.• Aiming your light down into it, you can see right through the membrane to the cell interior.• But because they looked like such retarded dunces, and women saw right through them.• Instead, you will see what there is to learn horn them-and then see right through them.• Above right: I can see right through you!• The women will see right through you.• We could see right through your crafty but loose Propaganda. straight through• Jen woke me up around eight that night, asking if I was going to sleep straight through.• I assumed she could sleep straight through a coughing fit.• Metaphorically speaking, you could see straight through him to the other side of the room.• It troubles me that though I read Gibbons's book straight through, I never before noticed a surf clam.• For six years we lived under the threat that the M18 could be driven straight through the centre.• At C. Mellings, Printers and Stationers she went straight through the shop and upstairs, and into her father's room.• She walked straight through the sitting-room and out into the sunshine.• This means they can move straight through woods and debris and such like.
all through• When you've been through death and live again you're changed all through.• She fought the feeling all through Saturday, but by Sunday she had had enough.• The police piled into the borough all through the day.• Jaq had prayed all through the night and felt giddy but purified.• What's more, they're alive for home-field advantage all through the postseason.• Yes, but the principle repeats all through the system.• Our comment all through this has been that there were no names mentioned... get through• Patrons get through 200,000 bottles of champagne a year.• He gets through a couple of bottles a year for chromatography.• I will never know how I got through that day.• Parents who grapple with the problem from the start seem to get through the adjustments much better.• It took nearly two years to get through the formalities for the younger child.• Jody sees that the reporter did manage to get through to Dan Williams for a comment.• Textiles accounted for just over a third, after a slight increase that got through to profit.• Unlike Nelson, we got through without mishap. put ... through• Of course, the same result could be achieved without putting the bookkeeping through a Loans Fund.• Ernie put through a phone call to Rhonda.• Suzi Hoflin came in with two of her pupils and put Ingrid through a reasonable enough gypsy dance routine.• I put my children through college doing it.• He put it through the same drill as the knife.• At the till, worried parents are putting through the week's shopping.• It has been 3 years in which my family were put through things they never ever deserved to be put through.• If anything appears urgent from an operations standpoint, put it through to him.