敲 – vocab dash

敲qiāo

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Meanings

1. to hit

2. to strike

3. to tap

4. to rap

5. to knock

6. to rip sb off

7. to overcharge

Characters used

敲to strike

Examples4

迭戈又yòu敲qiāo了le一下yīxià。

Diego knocked once more.

一个yīge丑chǒu男人nánrén敲qiāo了le我wǒ的de门mén。

An ugly man knocked on my door.

当dāng死亡sǐwáng来lái敲qiāo你nǐ的de门mén时shí，世界shìjiè上shàng所有suǒyǒu的de财富cáifù都dōu是shì无用wúyòng的de。

All the wealth in the world is useless when death comes knocking on your door.

我们wǒmen中zhōng的de许多xǔduō人rén多多少少duōduōshǎoshǎo都dōu经历jīnglì过guo这样zhèyàng的de循环xúnhuán：面对miànduì着zhe浏览器liúlǎnqì，习惯性xíguànxìng地deCtrl-T打开dǎkāi一个yīge新xīn的de标签页biāoqiānyè，敲qiāo下xià常cháng去qù网址wǎngzhǐ的de首字母shǒuzìmǔ然后ránhòu回车huíchē，只zhǐ为了wèile看看kànkan有没有yǒuméiyǒu啥shá新鲜xīnxiān事shì发生fāshēng。

Most of us have, to some extent, experienced being caught in a cycle like this one: Facing the browser, you hit, like you always do, Ctrl-T to open a new tab, type in the first letter of the website you always visit, and hit "enter"... just to see if anything new has happened.