飛機快要起飛的時候,我聽到了一個奇怪的聲音。

The plane was about to take off when I heard a strange sound.

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Sentence Composition

1 飛機 fēi airplane

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2 快要 kuàiyào nearly at the point of (doing sth); about to (do sth)
3 起飛 fēi
  1. (of an aircraft or rocket) to take off; to lift off
  2. (fig.) (of an enterprise etc) to start to develop rapidly
=4 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
=4 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=4 really and truly
=4 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
5 時候 shíhou
  1. time
  2. length of time
  3. moment
  4. period
6
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
7 聽到 tīngdào to hear
=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 一個 ge
  1. a; an; one
  2. the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
=9 一個
  1. Combination of the numeral (“one”) and the generic classifier : a; an; one
  2. same
10 奇怪 guài
  1. strange
  2. odd
  3. to marvel
  4. to be baffled
=11 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
=11 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=11 really and truly
=11 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
12 聲音 shēngyīn
  1. voice
  2. sound

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