昨天哥哥去福岛给当地居民帮忙了。我对放射量的增加很害怕。

Yesterday my big brother went to Fukushima to help the locals. I'm very afraid of the rise in radiation levels.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 昨天 zuótiān yesterday
2 哥哥 ge older brother

classifiers: ,

3
  1. to go
  2. to go to (a place)
  3. (of a time etc) last
  4. just passed
  5. to send
  6. to remove
  7. to get rid of
  8. to reduce
  9. to be apart from in space or time
  10. to die (euphemism)
  11. to play (a part)
  12. (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
  13. (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
  14. (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
4 福岛 dǎo Fukushima (Japanese surname and place name)
=5 gěi
  1. to
  2. for
  3. for the benefit of
  4. to give
  5. to allow
  6. to do sth (for sb)
  7. (grammatical equivalent of )
  8. (grammatical equivalent of )
  9. (sentence intensifier)
=5
  1. to supply
  2. to provide
6 当地居民 dāngmín
  1. a local person
  2. the local population
7 帮忙 bāngmáng
  1. to help
  2. to lend a hand
  3. to do a favor
  4. to do a good turn
=8 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=8 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)
=8 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=8 liào unofficial variant of liào
9
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
10 duì
  1. right; correct
  2. towards; at; for
  3. concerning; regarding
  4. to treat (sb a certain way)
  5. to face
  6. (bound form) opposite; facing; matching
  7. to match together; to adjust
  8. to fit; to suit
  9. to answer; to reply
  10. to add; to pour in (a fluid)
  11. to check; to compare
  12. classifier: couple; pair
11 放射 fàngshè
  1. to radiate
  2. radioactive
=12 liáng to measure
=12 liàng
  1. capacity
  2. quantity
  3. amount
  4. to estimate
  5. abbr. for 量词 liàng, classifier (in Chinese grammar)
  6. measure word
=13 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 跑堂儿的 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
=13 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=13 really and truly
=13 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
14 增加 zēngjiā to raise; to increase
15 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
16 害怕 hài to be afraid; to be scared