這份工作看起來很簡單,但它花了我一個星期。

The job looked quite simple, but it took me a week.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 zhè
  1. (pronoun) this; these
  2. (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun)
  3. (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. zhèi, esp. in Beijing)
=1 zhèi (coll.) this
2 fèn
  1. classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc
  2. variant of fèn
3 工作 gōngzuò
  1. to work
  2. (of a machine) to operate
  3. job
  4. work
  5. task

classifiers: , ,

=4 看起來 kànlai seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
=4 看起來 kànqilai
  1. to look and perceive
  2. to seem; to look as if
5 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
6 簡單 jiǎndān simple; not complicated
7 dàn
  1. but; yet; however; still
  2. merely; only; just
=8 it
=8 it (pronoun for an animal)
=8 tuō
  1. alternative form of / (tuó)
  2. used in 它它藉藉它它借借
=8 only used in 它它
=9 Huā surname Hua
=9 huā
  1. flower
  2. blossom
  3. fancy pattern
  4. florid
  5. to spend (money, time)
  6. (coll.) lecherous
  7. lustful

classifiers: , , , , ,

=9 huā old variant of huā
=9 huā
  1. variant of huā
  2. flower
  3. blossom
  4. also pr. wěi
=10 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=10 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)
=10 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=10 liào unofficial variant of liào
11
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
=12 一個 ge
  1. a; an; one
  2. the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
=12 一個
  1. Combination of the numeral (“one”) and the generic classifier : a; an; one
  2. same
13 星期 xīng
  1. week
  2. day of the week
  3. Sunday

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