來自巴西的美國大學學生雷貝卡奧利維拉埃斯特維斯說:「我住在一個家庭裡,他們也來自巴西,但他們在這裡生活了很長時間。」

"I'm staying with a family — they're also from Brazil, but they've been living here for a really long time," said Rebeca Oliveira Esteves, a student at American University originally from Brazil.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 來自 lái
  1. to come from (a place)
  2. From: (in email header)
2 巴西 Brazil
=3 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=3 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=3 really and truly
=3 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
4 美國 Měiguó United States; USA; US
=5 大學 xué the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書 shū in Confucianism
=5 大學 xué
  1. university
  2. college

classifier:

=6 學生 xuésheng
  1. student
  2. schoolchild
=6 學生 xuéshēng
  1. disciple; follower (Classifier: m)
  2. student; pupil (Classifier: m)
=7 Léi surname Lei
=7 léi
  1. thunder
  2. (bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷 léi land mine
  3. (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound
  4. (Tw) (coll.) spoiler
  5. (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb)
=8 Bèi surname Bei
=8 bèi
  1. cowrie
  2. shellfish
  3. currency (archaic)
=9
  1. to stop
  2. to block
  3. (computing) (coll.) slow
  4. (loanword) card
  5. truck (from "car")
  6. calorie (abbr. for 卡路里 )
  7. cassette

classifiers: ,

=9 qiǎ
  1. to block
  2. to be stuck
  3. to be wedged
  4. customs station
  5. a clip
  6. a fastener
  7. a checkpost
  8. Taiwan pr.
=10 Ào
  1. (bound form) Austria (abbr. for 奧地利 Ào)
  2. (bound form) Olympics (abbr. for 奧林匹克 Àolín)
=10 ào
  1. obscure
  2. mysterious
=11 surname Li
=11
  1. sharp
  2. favorable
  3. advantage
  4. benefit
  5. profit
  6. interest
  7. to do good to
  8. to benefit
12 維拉 Wéi Vala (Middle-earth)
=13 Āi abbr. for Egypt 埃及 Āi or Ethiopia 埃塞俄比亞 Āisàié
=13 āi
  1. dust
  2. dirt
  3. angstrom
  4. phonetic ai or e
=14
  1. Slovakia
  2. Slovak
  3. abbr. for 斯洛伐克 luò
=14
  1. (phonetic)
  2. this
15
  1. special
  2. unique
  3. distinguished
  4. especially
  5. unusual
  6. very
  7. abbr. for 特克斯 , tex
=16 Wéi
  1. abbr. for Uighur 維吾爾 Wéiěr
  2. surname Wei
=16 wéi
  1. to preserve
  2. to maintain
  3. to hold together
  4. dimension
  5. vitamin (abbr. for 維生素 wéishēng)
=16 yōng
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) only used in 盧維卢维 (“ancient river in the Yan Province”)
  2. only used in 盧維卢维 (“ancient river in the Yan Province”)
=17
  1. Slovakia
  2. Slovak
  3. abbr. for 斯洛伐克 luò
=17
  1. (phonetic)
  2. this
=18 shuì to persuade
=18 shuō
  1. to speak; to talk; to say
  2. to explain; to comment
  3. to scold; to tell off
  4. (bound form) theory; doctrine
=18 yuè
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of / (yuè, “happy; delighted”)
  2. alternative form of / (yuè, “happy; delighted”)
=18 tuō
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of / (“to free; to relieve”)
  2. alternative form of / (“to free; to relieve”)
19
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
20 zhù
  1. to live
  2. to dwell
  3. to stay
  4. to reside
  5. to stop
  6. (suffix indicating firmness, steadiness, or coming to a halt)
21 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
=22 一個 ge
  1. a; an; one
  2. the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
=22 一個
  1. Combination of the numeral (“one”) and the generic classifier : a; an; one
  2. same
23 家庭 jiātíng
  1. family
  2. household

classifiers: ,

24
  1. lining
  2. interior
  3. inside
  4. internal
  5. also written
25 他們 men they; them
=26 surname Ye
=26
  1. also; too; as well; (not ...) either
  2. (used after a verbal or nominal expression X to indicate that X is an extreme or unexpected case) even (X)
  3. (literary) particle having functions similar to a
27 來自 lái
  1. to come from (a place)
  2. From: (in email header)
28 巴西 Brazil
29 dàn
  1. but; yet; however; still
  2. merely; only; just
30 他們 men they; them
31 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
32 這裡 zhè here
33 生活 shēnghuó
  1. to live
  2. life
  3. livelihood
=34 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=34 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of liǎo)
=34 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=34 liào unofficial variant of liào
35 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
36 長時間 chángshíjiān long time; long period of time