我的哥哥在军队里.他刚刚被提升为少校.

My brother’s in the army. He was just promoted to the rank of major.

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Sentence Composition

1
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
2 的哥
  1. male taxi driver
  2. cabbie (slang)
3 elder brother
4 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
5 军队 jūnduì armed forces; troops

classifiers: ,

=6 variant of
=6
  1. lining
  2. interior
  3. inside
  4. internal
  5. also written
=6 Li (surname)
=6
  1. li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m
  2. neighborhood
  3. ancient administrative unit of 25 families
  4. (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township zhèn and neighborhood lín levels
7
  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)
=8 刚刚 gānggang
  1. just recently
  2. just a moment ago
=8 刚刚 gānggāng
  1. barely
  2. just; just now; a moment ago
=9 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")
=9
  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”)
=9
  1. alternative form of (bǐ, “that”)
  2. alternative form of (bì, “wig”)
=9 alternative form of
10 提升 shēng
  1. to promote (to a higher-ranking position)
  2. to lift; to hoist
  3. (fig.) to elevate; to raise; to improve
=11 wéi
  1. as (in the capacity of)
  2. to take sth as
  3. to act as
  4. to serve as
  5. to behave as
  6. to become
  7. to be
  8. to do
  9. by (in the passive voice)
=11 wèi
  1. because of
  2. for
  3. to
=11 wéi variant of wéi
=11 wèi variant of wèi
12 少校 shàoxiào
  1. junior ranking officer in Chinese army
  2. major
  3. lieutenant commander