拓宽
tuòkuān
to widen, to broaden
Part of speech · verb
Pattern visualization
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Examples
- 这条马路最近拓宽了。This road was recently widened.
- 读书能拓宽我们的视野。Reading can broaden our horizons.
Collocations
拓宽道路拓宽视野拓宽思路拓宽渠道
Mnemonic
拓 tuò "to extend, open up" + 宽 kuān "wide": to extend the width, i.e. to widen or broaden (a road, vision, thinking). Both concrete (拓宽道路, to widen a road) and abstract (拓宽视野, to broaden horizons). The 拓 is in 开拓 (to pioneer). The 宽 is in 宽阔 and 宽度. A near-synonym of 开阔 (kāikuò), both "to broaden".
Related
开拓拓展开阔扩大
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