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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

过来 [guòlái]
  1. 1. verb come over
    你赶快过来,大家都等你呢!
    Come straight over – everyone is waiting for you!

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

过来 [guòlái]
  1. 1. come over; come up
    过来
    Come over here, quick!
    有个人过来向我打听去火车站的路。
    A man came up and asked me the way to the railway station.
  2. 2. used after a verb plus 得 or 不 to indicate the sufficiency or insufficiency of time, capability or quantity
    你一个人忙得过来吗?
    Can you manage by yourself?
    你什么时候过来
  3. 3. used after a verb to indicate motion towards the speaker
    一队士兵正朝我们走过来
    A contingent of soldiers was marching towards us.
  4. 4. used after a verb to indicate turning around towards the speaker
    他转过脸来,我才认出是位老同学。
    He turned around, and then I recognized him as a former classmate of mine.
  5. 5. used after a verb to indicate a return to the normal state
    过来
    wake up; sober up; come to

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

过来 [guòlái]
  1. 1. 离开原地向说话人所在的方向移动
    从对面店铺里过来一个人。
  2. 2. 通过某个时期或某种考验
    大风大浪我都过来了,还怕这点儿小事吗?
  3. 3. 用在动词后。a)表示人或物随动作从一处到另一处
    他朝我走过来
    一群鸭子游过来
    一定要把奖杯夺过来
  4. 4. b)表示物体随动作改变方向
    把脸转过来,面对着我。
  5. 5. c)表示回到原来的、正常的或较好的状态
    人们这才明白过来
    把毛病改过来了。
  6. 6. d)表示能力许可(多跟“得”“不”连用)
    活儿不多,我一个人干得过来
    这么多功课,复习不过来了。

Examples

咱们总算挨过来了。
We've pulled through at long last.
母亲一喊,孩子们都奔跑过来
The children came running when their mother called them.
你忙不过来,给你搭个人吧。
You're terribly busy. We'll send someone to help you.
把这两个字颠倒过来句子就顺了。
Transpose these two words and the sentence will read right.
把车头掉过来
turn the car round
把桶推一下就轱辘过来了。
Give the barrel a push and it'll roll over here.
这么多事你一个人顾得过来吗?
You've got so many things to attend to. Can you manage all by yourself?
把敌军中被裹胁的人争取过来
win over those who joined the enemy army under duress
有个人过来向我打听去火车站的路。
A man came up and asked me the way to the railway station.

Collocations

干得过来
to be able to manage
看不过来
beyond one's energy/capacity
忙不过来
to be too busy to do something
照顾不过来
to be too busy to look after someone
过来
to rush over
过来
to walk to somewhere
赶快过来
to hurry to come somewhere
过来
to pay a visit to
过来一下
to come over
把头扭过来
to turn one's head
把身子侧过来
to turn on one's side
过来
to wake up
过来
to come to life
过来
to be corrected
大风大浪都过来
to have experienced many difficulties
那样苦的日子都过来
the difficult days have passed

Word Decomposition


[guò]
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[lái]

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