Through and through

Definition

through /θru:/ prep ၁။ (က) ျဖတ္၍၊ ေက်ာ္၍ (သြားသည္၊ ဝင္သည္၊ စီးသည္၊ ျဖာသည္ စသည္)။ The train is going through a tunnel. ❍ The burglar got in through the window. သူခိုးဟာ ျပတင္းကို ေက်ာ္ၿပီး ဝင္လာတယ္။ ❍ The water flows into the tank through this pipe. ❍ The sand ran through (ie between) my fingers. (ခ) ထြင္း၍၊ ေဖာက္၍ (ျမင္သည္၊ ၾကားသည္၊ စမ္းမိသည္)။ You can see through glass. ❍ He could just make out three people through the mist. ❍ I could hear their conversation through the wall. ❍ I can't feel anything through these gloves. (ဂ) ေဖာက္၍။ ျဖတ္၍။ His knees have gone through (ie made holes in) his jeans. ❍ The bullet went straight through him. ❍ The blood soaked through his shirt and stained his jacket. ❍ You need a sharp knife to cut through the knot. (ဃ) ျဖတ္၍၊ ေဖာက္၍၊ တိုး၍ (သြားသည္၊ စီးသည္ စသည္)။ The path led through the trees to the river. ❍ The doctor pushed through the crowd to get to the injured man. ❍ She made her way through the traffic to the other side of the road. ❍ I walked home through the fog. (င) ျဖတ္၍ (သြားသည္၊ စီးသည္ စသည္)။ The Charles River flows through Boston. ❍ Cars are not allowed to go through the city centre. ❍ We had to wade through the river to the opposite bank. ❍ The dog rushed straight through the flower-bed. ❍ running through the narrow streets. Compare ACROSS prep ၂။ တစ္ေလွ်ာက္လံုး၊ အၿပီးတိုင္ (ေနႏိုင္သည္၊ ေက်ာ္သည္၊ လြန္သည္)။ He will not live through the night (ie He will die before morning). ❍ The children are too young to sit through a long concert. ❍ She nursed me through my long illness. ❍ I'm halfway through (reading) his second novel. ၃။ (also infml thru ) ( US ) မွ…အထိ။ stay in London Tuesday through Friday. ၄။ (က) အားျဖင့္ (သို႔) မွတစ္ဆင့္။ You can only achieve success through hard work. ❍ I heard of the job through a newspaper advertisement. ❍ It was through you (ie as a result of your help) that Shirley and I were able to meet again. (ခ) (အေၾကာင္း) ေၾကာင့္။ We missed the plane through being held up on the M25. ❍ The accident happened through no fault of mine. ၅။ ျဖတ္၍၊ ေက်ာ္၍ (သြားသည္၊ ေမာင္းသည္ စသည္)။ How did you manage to get all those cigarettes through Customs? ❍ He drove through a red light (ie passed it when he should have stopped). ၆။ ျဖတ္သန္း၍။ ေက်ာ္လြန္၍။ ေက်ာ္လႊား၍။ get a Bill through Parliament ❍ The teacher's job is to help the students through their exams. ❍ All the top teams are safely through the first round. adv part ၁။ ျဖတ္၍။ ေဖာက္၍။ Put the coffee in the filter and let the water run through. ❍ The tyre's flat—the nail has gone right through. ❍ We're coming to a farmyard— I suppose we can just walk through. ❍ The onlookers stood aside to let the doctor through. ❍ The flood was too deep to drive through. ၂။ အစမွအဆံုးတိုင္။ လံုးလံုး။ ေတာက္ေလွ်ာက္။ Don't tell me how it ends—I haven't read it all the way through yet. ❍ The baby slept right through (ie did not wake up in the night). ၃။ ျဖတ္၍။ The light was red but the ambulance drove straight through. ၄။ တိုင္ေအာင္။ အထိ။ Our team is through to (ie has reached) the semifinals. ၅။ (က) ေတာက္ေလွ်ာက္။ ‘Did you stop in Oxford on the way?’ ‘No, we drove straight through. ’ (ခ) ေတာက္ေလွ်ာက္။ This train goes straight through to Edinburgh. ၆။ (တယ္လီဖုန္း) ဆက္၍ (ရသည္၊ မရစသည္)။ Ask to be put through to me personally. ❍ I tried to ring you but I couldn't get through (eg becaue the line was engaged or faulty). ❍ You're through now (ie You can begin to speak). ၇။ ~ ( with sth/sb ) ( esp US ) အၿပီး။ အၿပီးအျပတ္။ Are you through with that newspaper? ❍ Keith and I are through (ie have ended our relationship). ၈။ (after an adj ) လံုးလံုးလ်ားလ်ား။ လံုးဝ။ We got wet through. adj ၁။ ေတာက္ေလွ်ာက္။ တိုက္႐ိုက္ ။ through traffic ❍ There's a through train to Leeds. ၂။ ေတာက္ေလွ်ာက္။ တိုက္႐ိုက္။ No through road (ie The road is closed at one end). ❏ through and through [ IDM ] လံုးလံုးလ်ားလ်ား။ အျပည့္အဝ။ စစ္စစ္။ He's an Englishman through and through (ie He has many typically English characteristics).

Examples

1. The railway runs through a tunnel.
2. Some pipes were almost blocked
3. so that hardly any water was trickling through.
4. She was watching him through the kitchen window.
5. The man at the gate would not let us through.
6. The men raced the stolen car through an army checkpoint at 100 mph.
7. You could feel the wind whistling through tiny cracks in the wall.
8. A workman was drilling through the concrete wall.
9. The soles of his shoes were nearly worn through in places.
10. Workers had cut through an electrical cable while they were digging.
11. Maynard spent a year travelling through Europe and Asia
12. giving lectures.
13. The path climbs steeply through the trees.
14. A tiny explosion sent sparks flying through the air.
15. Only one hotel remained open through the year.
16. [all through] : He lay awake all through the night.
17. [the whole day/night/year etc through] : They worked the whole day through.
18. [through to] : The training programme will continue through to mid-April.
19. In 1986 Professor Lowe retired through ill health.
20. Most accidents occur through human error.
21. Through hard work and determination the team has achieved remarkable success.
22. Skills that we can only learn through experience
23. Concert tickets are being sold through the Internet.
24. Woods issued a statement through his agent.
25. I heard through a friend of Caroline’s that there’s been trouble in the family.
26. I’ve been going through hell these last six months
27. waiting for the trial.
28. Women who had lived through the horror and suffering of war
29. We have come through the struggle stronger and more united than we were before.
30. The pain was terrible
31. but he pulled through when most other men would have died.
32. I’m not sure what time he’ll be through with his meeting.
33. Only one more letter to write. I’m nearly through.
34. [be/get through] : I tried to phone the mayor’s office
35. but I couldn’t get through.
36. [put someone through] : Can you put me through to Mr Pemberton
37. please?
38. A rumour spread through the camp.
39. Problems extend through the entire system.
40. When she heard Bruno’s voice
41. it sent a chill of terror through her.
42. I’m no good at languages
43. so I’d never get through the exam.
44. He took his driving test for the third time and just managed to scrape through.
45. An anti-terrorism bill was rushed through parliament.
46. Congress pushed through very large increases in AIDS funding.
47. You’d better read through the instructions carefully.
48. Christina hastily flicked through her diary.
49. I’ve been searching through all the files
50. but I can’t find Hamilton’s letter.
51. [through to] : Does this train go through to Glasgow?
52. [through to] : The course takes students through to university degree level.
53. In spite of the terrible weather one plane managed to get through.
54. [go/work/get through] : We seem to be getting through two or three boxes of tissues a day.