现在很难静下心来好好看一本书。

It is presently very difficult to calm down and treat oneself with a book.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 现在 xiànzài now; at present; currently
2 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
=3 nán
  1. difficult (to...)
  2. problem
  3. difficulty
  4. difficult
  5. not good
=3 nàn
  1. disaster
  2. distress
  3. to scold
4 jìng
  1. still
  2. calm
  3. quiet
  4. not moving
5 下心 xiàxīn to be diligent; to be attentive; to be careful
6 lái
  1. to come
  2. (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)
  3. hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來 huílai)
  4. ever since (as in 自古以來 lái)
  5. for the past (amount of time)
  6. (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世 láishì)
  7. (between two verbs) in order to
  8. (after a round number) approximately
  9. (used after to indicate possibility, as in 談得來 tándelái, or after to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來 chībulái)
7 好好 hǎohǎo well; carefully; nicely; properly
=8 kān
  1. to look after
  2. to take care of
  3. to watch
  4. to guard
=8 kàn
  1. to see; to look at
  2. to read
  3. to watch
  4. to visit; to call on
  5. to consider; to regard as
  6. to look after
  7. to treat (a patient or illness)
  8. to depend on
  9. to feel (that)
  10. (after a verb) to give it a try
  11. to watch out for
9 一本 běn
  1. (Mainland China, education) the first tier of universities
  2. (judo) ippon
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see , (běn).
  4. another version (terminology in collation)
  5. entirely based on
  6. having the same origin
  7. ippon
  8. the first tier of universities
=10 Shū abbr. for 書經 Shūjīng
=10 shū
  1. book
  2. letter
  3. document
  4. to write

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