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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

[gǎo]
  1. 1. verb [干] do
  2. 2. verb [弄] get
    到资金
    secure funding
    到消息
    get information

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

[gǎo]
  1. 1. verb do; carry on; be engaged in
    他们准备个考试动员大会。
    他总是喜欢些小动作。
    改革
    carry on reforms
    调查研究
    do some investigation and study; do surveys
  2. 2. verb make; produce; work out; get up to
    跟他唠叨了半天,才到这么一点药。
    他们要一场篮球比赛。
    我们一点核武器完全是为了自卫。
    It is purely for self-defence that we have produced some nuclear weapons.
    个计划
    draw up a plan
  3. 3. verb set up; start; organize
    才几个月他们就把生意得这么红火。
    这家工厂是由一个个体户起来的。
    This factory was started by a self-employed worker.
  4. 4. verb get; get hold of; secure
    他们把那个公司垮了。
    我想去听演唱会,你能到票吗?
    raise money; make money
    你去给我们点吃的来。
    Go and get us something to eat.
  5. 5. verb followed by a complement
    这几个小鬼把这里得乱七八糟的。
    我把这件事给砸了。
    把某人
    make sb.'s name stink; discredit sb.
    把事情糟了
    have made a mess of things

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

[gǎo]
  1. 1. 做;办
    这种工作很难
    不知下一步该怎么
  2. 2. 设法获得
    想办法给我张票
    这方面的资料一时不到
  3. 3. 整人,使吃到苦头
    他们合起来老王
  4. 4. 同宾语结合,表示处置这些宾语的相应动作行为
    革命
    翻译
    不出什么名堂

Examples

现代汉语,他古代汉语。 古代汉语
这孩子在课堂上一点也不安分,老要小动作。
The boy doesn't behave himself in class; he's always playing some prank or other. 安分
建筑是他的本行。
Architecture is his line. 本行
改革就要有一股不怕困难的闯劲。
To go in for reforms, one must have the fearless spirit of a pathbreaker. 闯劲
地下工作
do underground work 地下
在广州和东北之间长途贩运
transport goods for sale between Guangzhou and the Northeast 贩运
咱们这行的只不过是“逢场作戏”嘛。
We of this trade know too well that we are only playing a game. 逢场作戏
没有过这种工作,就不知道其中的甘苦。
You don't know how difficult the job is, unless you have done it yourself. 甘苦
调查研究
do some investigation and study; do surveys
改革
carry on reforms

Character Decomposition


[shǒu]
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[gāo]

Stroke Order

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Total Strokes: 13

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