要怎么才能把他拉下马？

What will it take to bring him down?

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 要 yāo (bound form) to demand; to coerce
=1 要 yào
  1. to want; to need; to ask for
  2. will; shall; about to
  3. need to; should
  4. if (same as 要是 yàoshi)
  5. (bound form) important
=1 要 yǎo
  1. (archaic) alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  2. alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  3. used in 要褭／要袅
=2 怎么 zěnme
  1. how?
  2. what?
  3. why?
=2 怎么 zěnme variant of 怎么 zěnme
3 才能 cáinéng
  1. talent
  2. ability
  3. capacity
=4 把 bǎ
  1. to hold; to grasp
  2. to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate
  3. handlebar
  4. classifier: handful, bundle, bunch
  5. classifier for things with handles
  6. (used to put the object before the verb: 把 bǎ + {noun} + {verb})
=4 把 bà handle
=4 把 pá
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 爬 (pá, “to scratch”)
  2. a surname
  3. alternative form of 爬 (pá, “to scratch”)
5 他 tā
  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 tārì and 他人 tārén)
=6 拉 lā
  1. to pull
  2. to play (a bowed instrument)
  3. to drag
  4. to draw
  5. to chat
  6. (coll.) to empty one's bowels
=6 拉 lá to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash
=6 拉 là
  1. used in 拉拉蛄 làlàgǔ
  2. variant of 落 là
7 下马 xiàmǎ
  1. to dismount from a horse
  2. (fig.) to abandon (a project)