前幾天,東京郊外發生了件可怕的事情。

The other day something horrible happened in a Tokyo suburb.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 前幾天 qiántiān
  1. a few days ago
  2. a few days before
  3. the past few days
  4. the previous few days
2 東京 Dōngjīng
  1. Tokyo, capital of Japan
  2. Tonkin (northern Vietnam during the French colonial period)
3 郊外 jiāowài outskirts
4 發生 shēng to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out
=5 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=5 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)
=5 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=5 liào unofficial variant of liào
6 jiàn
  1. item
  2. component
  3. classifier for events, things, clothes etc
7 可怕
  1. awful
  2. dreadful
  3. fearful
  4. formidable
  5. frightful
  6. scary
  7. hideous
  8. horrible
  9. terrible
  10. terribly
=8 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 跑堂兒的 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
=8 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=8 really and truly
=8 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
9 事情 shìqing affair; matter; thing; business

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