看着自己的房子被烧得精光,他顿时丧失了理智。

He lost his reason when he saw his house burn down.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 kān
  1. to look after
  2. to take care of
  3. to watch
  4. to guard
=1 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
=2 zhāo
  1. a move in chess (Taiwan pr. zhuó)
  2. trick; tactic
  3. (dialect) okay; all right
  4. (dialect) to put in; to add
=2 zháo
  1. to touch
  2. to come in contact with
  3. to feel
  4. to be affected by
  5. to catch fire
  6. to burn
  7. (coll.) to fall asleep
  8. (after a verb) hitting the mark
  9. succeeding in
=2 zhe aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
=2 zhuó
  1. to wear (clothes)
  2. to contact
  3. to use
  4. to apply
3 自己
  1. oneself
  2. one's own
=4 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 跑堂儿的 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
=4 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=4 really and truly
=4 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
5 房子 fángzi
  1. house
  2. building (single- or two-story)
  3. apartment
  4. room

classifiers: , , , ,

=6 bèi
  1. quilt
  2. to cover (with)
  3. (literary) to suffer (a misfortune)
  4. used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb)
  5. (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 bèilu:yóu to "go on a trip")
=6
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
  2. alternative form of (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
=6
  1. alternative form of (bǐ, “that”)
  2. alternative form of (bì, “wig”)
=6 alternative form of
7 shāo
  1. to burn
  2. to cook
  3. to stew
  4. to bake
  5. to roast
  6. to heat
  7. to boil (tea, water etc)
  8. fever
  9. to run a temperature
  10. (coll.) to let things go to one's head
=8
  1. to obtain
  2. to get
  3. to gain
  4. to catch (a disease)
  5. proper
  6. suitable
  7. proud
  8. contented
  9. to allow
  10. to permit
  11. ready
  12. finished
=8 used in 得瑟 se
=8 de structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc
=8 děi
  1. to have to
  2. must
  3. ought to
  4. to need to
9 精光 jīngguāng
  1. nothing left (money, food etc)
  2. all finished
  3. bright and shiny
  4. radiant
  5. glorious
10
  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)
11 顿时 dùnshí immediately; suddenly
12 丧失 sàngshī
  1. to lose
  2. to forfeit
=13 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=13 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)
=13 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=13 liào unofficial variant of liào
14 理智 zhì
  1. reason
  2. intellect
  3. rationality
  4. rational