现代交通使我们能在几天内环绕地球。

Modern travel enables us to go around the world in a few days.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 现代 Xiàndài Hyundai, South Korean company
=1 现代 xiàndài
  1. modern times
  2. modern age
  3. modern era
2 交通 jiāotōng
  1. to be connected
  2. traffic
  3. transportation
  4. communications
  5. liaison
3 使 shǐ
  1. to make
  2. to cause
  3. to enable
  4. to use
  5. to employ
  6. to send
  7. to instruct sb to do sth
  8. envoy
  9. messenger
4 我们 men we; us; ourselves; our
=5 Néng surname Neng
=5 néng
  1. can
  2. to be able to
  3. might possibly
  4. ability
  5. (physics) energy
=5 nài
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“to bear; to withstand”)
  2. a surname
  3. alternative form of (“to bear; to withstand”)
=5 tái
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“name of a Chinese constellation”)
  2. alternative form of (“name of a Chinese constellation”)
=5 tài
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of / (tài, “bearing; apparition; form; shape; status; position”)
  2. alternative form of / (tài, “bearing; apparition; form; shape; status; position”)
=5 nái
  1. (obsolete) mythical three-legged soft-shelled turtle
  2. mythical three-legged soft-shelled turtle
=5 tāi
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) only used in 能始 (tāishǐ, “origin; root cause”)
  2. only used in 能始 (tāishǐ, “origin; root cause”)
=5 xióng
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (xióng, “bear”)
  2. alternative form of (xióng, “bear”)
6 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)
7 几天 tiān several days
8 内环 nèihuán ring road
9 绕地 rào to orbit the Earth
=10 qiú ball used for playing games (variant of qiú)
=10 qiú
  1. ball
  2. sphere
  3. globe
  4. ball game
  5. match

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