拉开

to pull open / to pull apart / to space out / to increase

to pull / to play (a bowed instrument) / to drag / to draw / to chat / (coll.) to empty one's bowels

to open / to start / to turn on / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / to operate (a vehicle) / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2] / abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format

(fig.) to raise the curtain / to lift the curtain / to be a curtain raiser for

Maracaibo, Venezuela

to assume a fighting stance / (fig.) to take the offensive