已經很晚了,但是他還在工作。

It's already very late, but he is still at work.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 已經 jīng already
2 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
3 wǎn
  1. evening
  2. night
  3. late
=4 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=4 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)
=4 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=4 liào unofficial variant of liào
5 但是 dànshì but; however
6
  1. (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his
  2. (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日 and 他人 rén)
=7 Huán surname Huan
=7 hái
  1. still
  2. still in progress
  3. still more
  4. yet
  5. even more
  6. in addition
  7. fairly
  8. passably (good)
  9. as early as
  10. even
  11. also
  12. else
=7 huán
  1. to pay back
  2. to return
=7 xuán
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“to rotate; to turn around”)
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) immediately
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) nimble; agile
  4. alternative form of (“to rotate; to turn around”)
  5. immediately
  6. nimble; agile
8 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)
9 工作 gōngzuò
  1. to work
  2. (of a machine) to operate
  3. job
  4. work
  5. task

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