It opened automatically. The dam gates opened because it reached about 43 meters.

它自动打开了。 大坝闸门打开了，因为它达到了43米。

Once I started to know more people, and showed them my willingness to socialize, the floodgates opened, and somehow it was expected of me to hangout with them regularly, and, basically, spend my free time in social settings.

旦我开始认识更多人，并向他们展示我社交意愿，闸门就打开了，不知何故，人们期望我定期和他们在起，基本上，把我空闲时间都用于社交场合。

And she could not let herself cry. She had not really cried since she came home and she knew that if she once let down the floodgates, her closely husbanded courage would all be gone.

可她不能哭呀，她这次回家以后还没真正哭过，但她知道只要旦把闸门打开，她那勉强保持着勇气就会全部消失了。

So in the view of a lot of analysts, this now kind of opens the floodgates potentially to other companies looking to come in and do deals of this kind of size.

因此，在许多分析师看来，这现在可能为其他希望进入并进这种规模交易公司打开了闸门。

Connected to the tractor was a large bin called a hopper, which Kurt wheeled beneath the truck bed to catch the corn when he opened the gate.

与拖拉机相连是个叫做装料斗大箱子，库尔特打开闸门时，在卡车车箱底下旋转这个大箱子来接住玉米。

More than half of the western US is facing extreme drought conditions, and farmers in Oregon's Klamath Basin talk about illegally using force to open dam gates for irrigation.

美国西部超过半地区正面临极端干旱天气，俄勒冈州克拉马斯盆地农民谈到，他们非法使用武力打开大坝闸门进灌溉。

You can test this, just put a drop of lemon juice on your tongue and wait for the floodgates to open.

你可以测试下，只需在舌头上檬汁，等待“闸门”打开。

If the sustainable-egg roll out is successful, it could open the floodgates for regenerative beef broccoli and beyond.

如果可持续鸡蛋推广成功，它将为再生牛肉西兰花及其他产品打开闸门。

Oh, I'm sure you'll turn on the waterworks, and the whole neighborhood will come running. They always do.

是，我肯定你会打开你眼泪闸门，整个社区人都会同情你。他们总这样。

The gate swings open and you hurry away with your treasure before the wizard changes his mind.

闸门打开了，你急忙带着你宝藏离开以免那位巫师改变主意。

In order to open the gate, I have to raise the seat of my wheelchair as high as it goes, a full foot or so from its lowest setting.

为了打开闸门，我必须把轮椅座位抬得尽可能高，从最低位置抬高大约英尺。

The word " kufungisisa" opens up a floodgate of tears.

“kufungisisa” 这个词打开了眼泪闸门。

It can open the floodgates to  more companies and more planes.

它可以为更多公司和更多飞机打开闸门。

And actually, once they did, it opened up conversation floodgates.

事实上，旦他们这样做了，就打开了交流闸门。

As aid has dried up, the floodgates of horror have reopened.

随着援助枯竭，恐怖闸门再次打开。

So that opens the floodgates for that.

这就为那打开了闸门。

Now, later on, Dan, when they do abandon ship, they immediately open the gates.

现在，稍后，丹，当他们决定弃船时，他们立刻打开了闸门。

The lock-gates opened as he spoke, and out we went, and on.

他说话时，闸门打开了， 我们就出去了， 继续前进。

And it didn't take much to really open the floodgates.

只需稍加推动，便能真正打开创意闸门。

OK, well, I was hesitant about my next question, which was, could this be a kind of, now the Rubicon of the first title has been crossed, could this be a floodgates opening, you know, key being unlocked situation for Thomas Mahatch?

好，我对下个问题有些犹豫，那就是：既然托马斯·马哈奇已经赢得了他首个冠军，这是否可能成为种“鲁比孔河”时刻，意味着他职业生涯闸门就此打开，关键之锁已被解开？