如果没有我过去16年最好的朋友、我们家庭的中坚、我生命中的挚爱,我今天晚上不可能站在这里,美国下一位第一夫人米歇尔-奥巴马。

And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years, the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation's next first lady, Michelle Obama.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 如果 guǒ
  1. if
  2. in case
  3. in the event that
2 没有 méiyǒu
  1. haven't
  2. hasn't
  3. doesn't exist
  4. to not have
  5. to not be
3
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
=4 过去 guò
  1. (in the) past; former; previous
  2. to go over; to pass by
=4 过去 guòqu (verb suffix)
=5 Nián surname Nian
=5 nián year

classifier:

=5 nián
  1. grain
  2. harvest (old)
  3. variant of nián
6 最好 zuìhǎo
  1. best
  2. had better ...; it would be best to ...
=7 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
=7 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=7 really and truly
=7 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=8 朋友 péngyou friend

classifiers: ,

=8 朋友 péngyǒu
  1. (archaic) large number of retainers
  2. (archaic, Ming dynasty) designation given by government bureaucrats to Confucian students
  3. designation given by government bureaucrats to Confucian students
  4. large number of retainers
9 我们 men we; us; ourselves; our
10 家庭 jiātíng
  1. family
  2. household

classifiers: ,

=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 中坚 zhōngjiān
  1. core
  2. nucleus
  3. backbone
13
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
14 生命 shēngmìng life (as the characteristic of living beings)

classifiers: ,

15 中的 zhòng
  1. to hit the target
  2. (fig.) to hit the nail on the head
=16 挚爱 zhìài true love
=16 挚爱 zhì'ài
  1. thing that one deeply loves; true love
  2. to love with all of one's heart; to love deeply
17
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
18 今天 jīntiān
  1. today
  2. the present time; now
19 晚上 wǎnshang
  1. evening
  2. night
  3. in the evening

classifier:

20 不可能 néng
  1. impossible
  2. cannot
  3. not able
21 zhàn
  1. station
  2. to stand
  3. to halt
  4. to stop
  5. branch of a company or organization
  6. website
22 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)
=23 这里 zhè variant of 這裡 zhè
=23 这里 zhè here
24 美国 Měiguó United States; USA; US
25 xià
  1. down
  2. downwards
  3. below
  4. lower
  5. later
  6. next (week etc)
  7. second (of two parts)
  8. to decline
  9. to go down
  10. to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc)
  11. measure word to show the frequency of an action
26
  1. one
  2. single
  3. a (article)
  4. as soon as
  5. entire; whole; all; throughout
  6. "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
  7. also pr. yāo for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
27 wèi
  1. position
  2. location
  3. place
  4. seat
  5. classifier for people (honorific)
  6. classifier for binary bits (e.g. 十六位 16-bit or 2 bytes)
  7. (physics) potential
=28 第一夫人 rén First Lady (wife of US president)
=28 第一夫人 dì-rén First Lady
=29 米歇尔 xiēěr
  1. Michel or Mitchell (name)
  2. George Mitchell (1933-), US Democratic party politician and diplomat, influential in brokering Northern Ireland peace deal in 1990s, US Middle East special envoy from 2009
=29 米歇尔 xiē'ěr
  1. a transliteration of the English female given name Michelle
  2. a transliteration of the French male given name Michel
30 奥巴马 Ào Barack Obama (1961–), US Democrat politician, president 2009–2017