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Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

开门 [kāimén]
  1. 1. open the door; open up
    有人敲门,快开门去。
    Somebody's knocking at the door. Quick, go and open it.
  2. 2. (of a store) begin a day's business

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

开门 [kāimén]
  1. 1. 开门户。比喻打破界限,跟外界协作进行某项工作
    开门办学
    开门整改。
  2. 2. 开始营业
    邮局上午9点开门

Examples

开门去。—唉。
Open the door, quick! —Right.
我们在门外呼唤了半天,他才开门
We called at the door for a long time before he opened it.
听见有人叫他,他连忙去开门
Hearing someone calling him, he hurriedly went to open the door.
银行昨天没开门
The bank was closed yesterday.
一大早,夫役们就忙着开门迎客。
Early in the morning, the servants were busying greeting the guests.
听到门铃响,他赶忙撂下了扫把去开门
Hearing the bell, he put down the besom quickly and opened the door.
我使劲扣他家的门环,也不见有人来开门
I knocked hard on his door, but no one opened it.
很多人到医院看病不敢用手去开门,生怕沾染到各种病的病原体。
Many people dare not to touch the doorknob when they enter a hospital for fear that they might be exposed to the protozoon of various disease.
开门
open the door

Collocations

开门整风
to rectify directly
开门见山
directly
开门揖盗
to open the door to the robbers
开门
to open the door
开门
to open the door quickly
开门
a good start
开门营业
to do business
开门迎宾
to open the door to a welcome guest
商场开门
the department store is open

Word Decomposition


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