破译 (pò yì) — to decipher, to crack (a code/password/encryption)

Definition

Examples

• 情报人员花了三天时间破译了这份密码。
  Qíng bào rén yuán huā le sān tiān shí jiān pò yì le zhè fèn mì mǎ.
  The intelligence officers spent three days deciphering this code.
• 科学家正在努力破译人类基因组的全部信息。
  Kē xué jiā zhèng zài nǔ lì pò yì rén lèi jī yīn zǔ de quán bù xìn xī.
  Scientists are working hard to decode all the information in the human genome.
• 他利用计算机程序破译了那个复杂的暗号。
  Tā lì yòng jì suàn jī chéng xù pò yì le nà ge fù zá de àn hào.
  He used a computer program to crack that complex cipher.

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