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through1 /θruː/ ●●● S1 W1 preposition, adverb  1  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 because11  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 EnglishUNTIL 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 EnglishTCT 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。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？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。

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through• He bought the tickets through a friend at the stadium.• Rabbits got into the backyard through a hole in the fence.• The bill's passage through Congress was not a smooth one.• Fill out this form before you pass through customs.• The bullet had passed through his right arm.• Hundreds of working days have been lost this year through illness.• The Community Association collapsed through lack of support.• Prices are generally lowest from January through March and highest June through August.• The store is open Monday through Saturday.• It was through sheer laziness that we didn't get our flight booked on time.• "When will you be away?" "The 17th through the 19th."• The two men fled through the back door and escaped from police.• Over the weekend, we took a leisurely drive through the countryside.• Janet needed a lot of support to make it through the death of her husband.• As the water passes through the filter, dirt is taken out.• Through the kitchen window, I saw the mailman walking up to the house.• The party continued through the night until dawn.• It will be several months before your newborn sleeps through the night.• The driver had gone straight through the traffic lights and hit an oncoming car.• Rescue workers searched through the wreckage for survivors.through to• Something is preventing the gas from flowing through to the engine.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.through2 adjective  1  be through (with somebody/something) informal a) FINISH DOING somethingto have finished doing something or using something 完成（某事）；用完（某物） I’m not through just yet – I should be finished in an hour. 我还没有做完——一个小时后应该能完成了。 Are you through with the computer yet? 你用完电脑了吗？ b) RELATIONSHIPto no longer be having a relationship with someone 与（某人）关系完结 That’s it! Simon and I are through. 结束了！ 我和西蒙已经完了。 I’m through with you! 我和你结束了！2. through train TTTTTRa train by which you can reach a place, without having to use other trains 直达火车3. through road a road that joins cities, towns, or villages together 直通路

Examples from the Corpus

through• After eight minutes Thompson caught the Middlesbrough defence square with a through ball.• The main door stood wide open making a through draught.• Until 1987 there were two separate train ferry operations for through freight traffic between Britain and the continent, Dover-Dunkerque and Harwich-Zeebrugge.• It dripped like a slow percolation through limestone, so slow that she forgot it between drops.• There is now a through route underground between Gaping Gill and Ingleborough Cave but only for brave men.• He said the new 16.52 Middlesbrough to Darlington service was in fact a through train to Bishop Auckland.

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through¹ S1 W1 /θruː/ preposition, adverb
1.  DOOR/PASSAGE ETC into one side or end of an entrance, passage, hole etc and out of the other side or end:
    She smiled at him as he walked through the door.
    Water will be pumped through a pipe.
    I managed to squeeze through a gap in the hedge.
    They were suddenly plunged into darkness as the train went through a tunnel.
    There were people standing in the doorway and I couldn’t get through.
    through to
    I went through to the kitchen to see who was there.
2.  CUTTING/BREAKING cutting or breaking something, or making a hole from one side of it to the other:
    A football came crashing through the window.
    straight/right/clean through
    The bullet passed straight through his skull.
3.  ACROSS AN AREA from one side of an area to the other or between a group of things:
    We passed through France on our way to Italy.
    We made our way through the village to the farm.
    The wind howled through the trees.
    He had to push his way through the crowd to get to her.
    Let me through – I’m a doctor.
    get through/make it through (=reach a place after a difficult journey)
    You’ll never get through – the snow’s two metres deep.
    Rescue teams have finally made it through to the survivors.
    We drove right through the town centre.
    Carry on straight through the village.
4.  SEE THROUGH SOMETHING if you see something through glass, a window etc, you are on one side of the glass etc and it is on the other:
    I could see her through the window.
    I could see right through the thin curtains.
5.  PAST A PLACE past a place where you are supposed to stop:
    It took us ages to get through passport control.
    He drove straight through a red light.
6.  TIME during and to the end of a period of time:
    The cold weather continued through the spring.
    He slept right through the day.
    The fighting went on all through the night.
7.  PROCESS/EXPERIENCE from the beginning to the end of a process or experience:
    The book guides you through the whole procedure of buying a house.
    When you have been through a terrible experience like that, it takes a long time to recover.
    It’s a miracle that these buildings came through the war undamaged.
8.  COMPETITIONS past one stage in a competition to the next stage
    through to
    This is the first time they’ve ever made it through to the final.
    They didn’t even get through the first round of the contest.
9.  BECAUSE OF SOMETHING because of something:
    How many working days were lost through sickness last year?
10.  BY MEANS OF SOMETHING/SOMEBODY by means of a particular method, service, person etc:
    She got her first job through an employment agency.
    a success that was achieved through co-operative effort and wise leadership
    I heard about it through a friend.
11.  PARLIAMENT/CONGRESS if a proposal passes through a parliament, it is agreed and accepted as a law:
    A special bill was rushed through Congress to deal with the emergency.
12.  UNTIL May through June/Wednesday through Friday etc American English from May until June, from Wednesday until Friday etc:
    The store is open Monday through Saturday.
13. halfway through (something) in the middle of an event or period of time:
    I left halfway through the film.
14.  TELEPHONE British English connected to someone by telephone:
    I tried phoning you, but I couldn’t get through.
    Please hold the line and I’ll put you through.
    through to
    Did you manage to get through to her?
15.  COMPLETELY wet through/cooked through etc informal completely wet, cooked etc:
    You’re wet through. What on earth have you been doing?
    It should only take a few minutes to heat this through.
16. through and through if someone is a particular type of person through and through, they are completely that type of person:
    I’ll say one thing for Sandra – she’s a professional through and through.
17.  ALL THE WAY through to London/Paris etc as far as London, Paris etc:
    Does this train go through to Glasgow?
18.  USE QUICKLY get/go/run through something to use a lot of something quickly:
    George Ward started smoking at the age of nine, and at one time he was getting through 80 a day.
    By the end of the year he had run through all the money inherited from his father.
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ because conjunction used when giving the reason for something: I went home because I was tired. | The streets were flooded because of all the rain.
   ▪ due to/owing to preposition used to give the reason why something has happened. Due to and owing to are more formal than because: The delay was due to a problem with the ship’s engines. | The parade had to be cancelled owing to bad weather.
   ▪ through preposition because of something. Through is used especially when saying why someone succeeded or failed to do something: They won the game, more through luck than skill. | You failed that test through carelessness.
   ▪ thanks to preposition used when explaining that something good has happened because of someone’s efforts, or because something exists: Thanks to modern medicine, the disease can now be cured.
   ▪ since/as conjunction used when giving the reason why someone decides to do something or decides that something is true: We decided to go to the beach since it was a nice day. | I thought Kevin was out as his car wasn’t there.
   ▪ out of preposition because of a particular feeling or quality: He started reading the book out of curiosity. | I only asked out of politeness.

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through² adjective
1. be through (with somebody/something) informal
  a. to have finished doing something or using something:
    I’m not through just yet – I should be finished in an hour.
    Are you through with the computer yet?
  b. to no longer be having a relationship with someone:
    That’s it! Simon and I are through.
    I’m through with you!
2. through train a train by which you can reach a place, without having to use other trains
3. through road a road that joins cities, towns, or villages together