五十年前,電視、電腦這種東西簡直是天方夜譚。
Such things as television and computers could not have been dreamed of fifty years ago.
Source:
Tatoeba
Sentence Composition
| 1 | 五十 | wǔshí | fifty |
| 2 | 年前 | niánqián |
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| 3 | 電視 | diànshì | television; TV |
| 4 | 電腦 | diànnǎo |
computer classifier: 臺 |
| 5 | 這種 | zhèzhǒng | this kind of |
| =6 | 東西 | dōngxī | east and west |
| =6 | 東西 | dōngxi |
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| 7 | 簡直 | jiǎnzhí | simply; really |
| =8 | 是 | shì |
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| =8 | 是 | shì | variant of 是 shì |
| =9 | 天方夜譚 | Tiānfāng Yètán | The Arabian Nights (classic story) |
| =9 | 天方夜譚 | tiānfāngyètán | fantasy story |