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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

去 [qù]
  1. 1. verb [到] go
    从广州去北京
    go from Guangzhou to Beijing
    我们昨天去上海了。
    We went to Shanghai yesterday.
  2. 2. verb [除] get rid of
  3. 3. verb [距] be apart
    相去不远
    not far apart
  4. 4. verb [发] send
    去了一封信
    send a letter
  5. 5. adjective past
    去年
    last year

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

去 [qù]
  1. 1. verb go; go to (a place); go along
    昨天已经去了三个人。
    Three people went there yesterday.
    他去了三天，还没回来。
    He's been away for three days, and hasn't come back yet.
    他已经去了。
    He has already gone.
    我去。
    I'll go.
  2. 2. verb cause to go; send there
    我们只去了个代表。
    We only sent a representative.
    已经去了一个电报。
    A telegram has been sent (to him).
    给她去个电话。
    Give her a call.
    我给他去过两封信。
    I sent him two letters.
  3. 3. verb remove; get rid of
    去了皮再吃。
    Peel it before you eat it.
    汽油能去油迹。
    Gas is good for taking out oil stains.
    去头屑
    get rid of dandruff
  4. 4. verb (used before and / or after a verb) go in order to; be going to (do something there)
    你别管，让他自己去想办法。
    Don't bother, let him figure it out for himself.
    这件事我去办吧
    Let me (go and) arrange this.
    你们去研究研究，看该怎么办。
    Go and make a study of it, and see what's the best thing to do.
  5. 5. verb (used between two verbal expressions, and / or after the second expression) in order to (do something there)
    用辩证唯物主义的观点去观察事物
    look at things from a dialectical-materialist point of view
    他提了一桶水去浇花。
    He took a bucket of water to water the flowers.
    他回家吃饭去了。
    He went home to eat.
  6. 6. verb [Literary] be apart from in space or time
    去今五十年
    50 years ago
    两地相去40里。
    The two places are 40 li apart.
  7. 7. verb (used after verbs of motion, indicating motion away from the speaker) thither; there; away
    谁把我的笔拿去了？
    Who's taken my pen away?
    回家去
    go home
    上楼去
    go upstairs
  8. 8. verb used after certain verbs to express the idea of detachment, separation, or loss
    这些琐碎事情占去了他不少时间。
    Such small things take up a lot of his time.
    把多余的枝叶剪去。
    Cut off the unnecessary twigs and branches.
  9. 9. adjective just gone or elapsed
    去冬今春
    last winter and this spring
    去秋
    last autumn

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

去 [qù]
  1. 1. 动 离开
    去世
    去职
    何去何从。
  2. 2. 动 [文] 距离；相差
    两国相去万里
    去今千年
    相去不远。
  3. 3. 动 失去
    大势已去。
  4. 4. 动 除掉；减掉
    绳子太长，得去掉一截
    去粗取精
    去火。
  5. 5. 形 指过去的(一年)
    去冬今春
    去年。
  6. 6. 动 离开说话人所在地到别的地方
    从北京去上海
    去商场买东西
    去向
    去处。
  7. 7. 动 用在动词性词组(或介词词组)与动词之间，表示前者是方法或态度，后者是目的
    电动机坏了，得请人去修修
    拿着锄头去锄地
    用先进思想去教育学生。
  8. 8. 动 a)用在另一动词后面，表示去的目的
    咱们踢球
    去他上图书馆借书去了。我去打开水
  9. 9. b)用在另一动词前面，表示要做某事
    我去查查文献，看看有没有记载。
  10. 10. 动 用在另一动词后面。a)表示人或事物随动作离开说话人所在的地方
    朝大门外跑去
    火车向远方驶去
    送去几本书。
  11. 11. b)表示动作的结果，兼有除去或出去的意思
    把多余的字删去
    疾病夺去了他的生命
    父母相继死去。
  12. 12. c)表示任凭动作延续
    随他说去
    让他玩去。
  13. 13. d)表示估量或限于某一方面
    笛声听去非常悦耳
    他看去也就三十出头。
  14. 14. 动 [口] 用在"大""多""远"等形容词后面，有"极""非常"的意思(形容词后面和"去"后面一般都要加"了")
    那山高了去了
    广场上的人多了去了。
  15. 15. 名 去声
    平上去入
    阴阳上去。
  16. 16. 动 扮演(某一角色)
    在这出戏里，我去诸葛亮，他去曹操。
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Examples

要么你去，要么我去，反正得去一个人。
他们明天去参观故宫，我也想搭伙去。
They're going to visit the Palace Museum tomorrow and I'd like to join them.
反正得去一个人，就让我去吧！
Since someone has to go anyway, let me go.
你去，还是他去？
Are you going or is he?
先去上海还是先去西安没有最后定。
We haven't decided yet whether we go to Shanghai or Xi'an first.
不让他去嘛，他有意见；让他去嘛，他又不去了。
If you don't let him go, he'll complain; but if you ask him to go, then he'll refuse to.
不该她去，她偏要去。
She was not supposed to go but she insisted on going.
他不愿意去就算了吧，咱们反正去。
If he doesn't want to go, he doesn't need to. We'll go anyway.
要就去跳舞，要就去听音乐，别处我不去。
Let's go either to the dance or to the concert. I won't go anywhere else.
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土
[tǔ]		 + 厶
[sī]

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