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

它自动打了。 大坝的闸门打了，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.

一旦认识更多的人，并向他们展示社交的意愿，闸门就打了，不知何故，人们期望定期和他们一起，基本上，把的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，但她知道要一旦把闸门打，她那勉强保持着的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，许多分析师看来，这现可能为其他希望进入并进这种规模交易的公司打了闸门。

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.

与拖拉机相连的是一个叫做装料斗的大箱子，库尔特打闸门时，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.

美国西部超过一半的地区正面临极端干旱天气，俄勒冈州克拉马斯盆地的农民谈到，他们非法使用武力打大坝闸门进灌溉。

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

你可以测试一下，舌头上滴一滴柠檬汁，等待“闸门”打。

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闸门。

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

是的，肯定你会打你的眼泪闸门，整个社区的人都会同情你。他们总这样。

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

闸门打了，你急忙带着你的宝藏离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.

为了打闸门，必须把轮椅的座位抬得尽可能高，从最低位置抬高大约一英尺。

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

“kufungisisa” 这个词打了眼泪的闸门。

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

它可以为更多的公司和更多的飞机打闸门。

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

事实上，一旦他们这样做了，就打了交流的闸门。

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

随着援助的枯竭，恐怖的闸门再次打。

So that opens the floodgates for that.

这就为那打了闸门。

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

现，稍后，丹，当他们决定弃船时，他们立刻打了闸门。

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

稍加推动，便能真正打创意的闸门。

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

他说话时，闸门打了， 们就出去了， 继续前进。

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?

好的，对下一个问题有些犹豫，那就是：既然托马斯·马哈奇已经赢得了他的首个冠军，这是否可能成为一种“鲁比孔河”时刻，意味着他职业生涯的闸门就此打，关键之锁已被解？