以前,玛丽想和一位有雄心壮志的男人结婚。

Mary wanted to marry a man with ambition.

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Sentence Composition

1 以前 qián
  1. before
  2. formerly
  3. previous
  4. ago
2 玛丽
  1. Mary or Marie (name)
  2. Mali
3 xiǎng
  1. to think (about)
  2. to think of; to devise
  3. to think (that); to believe (that)
  4. to desire; to want (to)
  5. to miss (feel wistful about the absence of)
=4 old variant of
=4 surname He
=4
  1. (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. hàn)
  2. (math.) sum
  3. to make peace
  4. (sports) to draw; to tie
  5. (bound form) harmonious
  6. (bound form) Japan; Japanese
=4
  1. to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence
  2. to join in the singing
  3. to chime in with others
=4 to complete a set in mahjong or playing cards
=4 huó
  1. to combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water
  2. Taiwan pr. huò
=4 huò
  1. to mix (ingredients) together
  2. to blend
  3. classifier for rinses of clothes
  4. classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs
=4 (literary) harmonious (variant of )
=4 huo
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) warm
  2. warm
5
  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
6 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
7 有雄心 yǒuxióngxīn ambitious
8 壮志 zhuàngzhì
  1. great goal
  2. magnificent aspiration
=9 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
=9 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=9 really and truly
=9 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=10 男人 nánrén
  1. a man
  2. a male
  3. men

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=10 男人 nánren
  1. (colloquial) husband
  2. husband
11 结婚 jiéhūn
  1. to marry
  2. to get married

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