我們必須總體地研究這事件。

We must study the affair as a whole.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 我們 wǒmen we; us; ourselves; our
2 必須 bìxū
  1. to have to
  2. must
  3. compulsory
  4. necessarily
3 總體 zǒngtǐ
  1. completely
  2. totally
  3. total
  4. entire
  5. overall
  6. population (statistics)
=4 地 de
  1. -ly
  2. structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
=4 地 dì
  1. earth
  2. ground
  3. field
  4. place
  5. land

classifier: 片
5 研究 yánjiū
  1. research
  2. a study
  3. to research
  4. to look into

classifier: 項
=6 這 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)
=6 這 zhèi (coll.) this
7 事件 shìjiàn incident; event