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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

开动 [kāidòng]
  1. 1. verb [启动] start
    请大家开动脑筋,想想办法。
    Please would everyone get their brains in gear, and think of a solution.
  2. 2. verb [前进] get going

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

开动 [kāidòng]
  1. 1. start; set in motion
    火车开动了。
    The train was starting.
    开动机器
    start a machine
    开动宣传机器
    set the propaganda machine in motion
    开动脑筋
    use one's brains
    机车轰隆隆地开动了。
    革命终于轰轰烈烈地开动了。
    我的脑袋已经开动不了了。
  2. 2. move; march
    队伍休息了一下,就又开动了。

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

开动 [kāidòng]
  1. 1. 启动车辆、机器使运转
    火车已经开动
    开动机器
    开动脑筋。

Examples

火车开动了。
The train was starting. 开动
开动机器
start a machine 开动
开动宣传机器
set the propaganda machine in motion 开动
开动脑筋
use one's brains 开动
十几辆卡车排成一条龙,向前开动
A dozen trucks moved ahead one after another in a long line. 一条龙
只要开动脑筋,我们完全可以把它变费为宝。
你能开动机器吗? 机器
机车轰隆隆地开动了。 开动
队伍休息了一下,就又开动了。 开动
革命终于轰轰烈烈地开动了。 开动

Collocations

开动机车
to start an engine
开动脑筋
to beat one's brains
机器开动
the machine starts
已经开动
already started
徐徐开动
to voluntarily inaugurate
开动起来
to blaze out
开动队伍
thought inducing resuscitation
停止开动
to stop running

Word Decomposition


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nciku Note

开动 and 发动

1.这两个动词都可表示使机器运转。
Both verbs mean “to set a machine in motion."
(1)在调试车间,他发动(开动)了面前的这台机器。
“开动”侧重于开始运作;“发动”侧重于通过点火等过程进行运作。
开动 stresses “to start motion,” while 发动 stresses “the process of operation through ignition.”
(2)他熟练地发动了汽车,和往常一样开车去上班。
作为使机器运动的引申义,“开动”还可以表示运用思想等,比如“开动脑筋”。
开动 can be used figuratively to mean “using one’s brain, etc.” e.g. 开动脑筋.
(3)只要我们肯开动脑筋,一定能想出办法来的。

2.“开动”还可以表示队伍开拔或车辆开始行驶。
开动 can also mean “to be on the move of the troop or traffic.”
(1)休整了一天,部队继续向前开动。
(2)列车缓缓开动。

3.“发动”可表示使人员展开行动(一般为较大的行动)。还可以表示一方主动开始战争行动。
发动 can also mean “to mobilize people to engage in a campaign (usually of a big scale). It can mean “to start a war” as well.
(1)领导发动大家为灾区捐款。
(2)该国经对其邻国发动过大规模的侵略战争。

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