昨天鮑伯一定發生了什麼事。

Something must have happened to Bob yesterday.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 昨天 zuótiān yesterday
=2 鮑 Bào surname Bao
=2 鮑 bào abalone
=3 伯 bà variant of 霸 bà
=3 伯 bǎi one hundred (old)
=3 伯 bó
  1. father's elder brother
  2. senior
  3. paternal elder uncle
  4. eldest of brothers
  5. respectful form of address
  6. Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位 wǔděngjuéwèi
4 一定 yīdìng
  1. surely
  2. certainly
  3. necessarily
  4. fixed
  5. a certain (extent etc)
  6. given
  7. particular
  8. must
5 發生 fāshēng to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
=6 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=6 了 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with 得 dé or 不 bù after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 無 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of 瞭 liǎo)
=6 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=6 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào
7 什麼事 shénmeshì
  1. What's up?; Is something the matter?
  2. (coll.) (used in rhetorical questions of the form 關 guān + {person} + 什麼事 shénmeshì "what business is it of {person}'s?; what's it to {person}?")