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Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

看透 [kàntòu]
  1. 1. understand thoroughly
    这一着棋我看不透。
    I don't quite understand this move.
  2. 2. see through
    这个人我看透了,没有什么真才实学。
    I've seen through him; he's not a man of real learning.

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

看透 [kàntòu]
  1. 1. 了解得深透;看清本质
    妈妈看透了女儿的心事。

Examples

这个人我看透了,没有什么真才实学。
I've seen through him; he's not a man of real learning. 看透
一世蹭蹬使他看透了人间世态。
Countless frustrations all his life made him see the ways of the world. 蹭蹬
他是个心机很深的人, 很难看透他的心路。
He is a deep person who is hard to see through. 心路
把他看透了。
妈妈看透了女儿的心事。 看透
看透世情冷暖 世情
I can't get below the surface with him.
我无法看透他。 surface
He tried to be pleasant to the voters but they saw through the façade.
他努力对选民笑容可掬,但是选民早就看透他了。 pleasant
She could see through everybody.
她能看透每个人的心思。

Collocations

看透这一点
to see through it
看透世事
to have a thorough understanding of the world
一眼看透
to gain an insight into something at the first sight
已经看透
to have outguessed

Word Decomposition


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