雖然他很小心,但還是犯了個想不到的錯誤。

Careful as he was, he made an unexpected mistake.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 雖然 suīrán although; even though (often used correlatively with 可是 shì or 但是 dànshì etc)
2
  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)
3 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
4 小心 xiǎoxīn
  1. to be careful
  2. to take care
5 dàn
  1. but; yet; however; still
  2. merely; only; just
=6 還是 háishi
  1. still (as before)
  2. had better
  3. unexpectedly
  4. or
=6 還是 háishì
  1. had better; it would be best (to do something); one would be well-advised to
  2. nevertheless; yet
  3. or
  4. still
7 fàn
  1. to violate
  2. to offend
  3. to assault
  4. criminal
  5. crime
  6. to make a mistake
  7. recurrence (of mistake or sth bad)
=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 used in 自個兒 r
=9
  1. (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier)
  2. (bound form) individual
=10 想不到 xiǎngbudào
  1. unexpected
  2. hard to imagine
  3. it had not occurred to me
  4. who could have thought that
=10 想不到 xiǎngdào unexpectedly
=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 錯誤 cuò
  1. mistaken; false; wrong
  2. error; mistake

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