他靜靜地坐在書桌前,翻閱著那本泛黃的相簿。

He sat quietly at his desk, flipping through the yellowed photo album.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1
  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)
2 靜靜 jìngjìng
  1. calm; tranquil; peaceful
  2. quiet
=3 de
  1. -ly
  2. structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
=3
  1. earth
  2. ground
  3. field
  4. place
  5. land

classifier:

=4 Zuò surname Zuo
=4 zuò
  1. to sit
  2. to take a seat
  3. to take (a bus, airplane etc)
  4. to bear fruit
  5. variant of zuò
5 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)
6 書桌 shūzhuō desk

classifier:

7 qián
  1. front
  2. forward
  3. ahead
  4. first
  5. top (followed by a number)
  6. future
  7. ago
  8. before
  9. BC (e.g. 293)
  10. former
  11. formerly
8 翻閱 fānyuè
  1. to thumb through
  2. to flip through (a book)
=9 zhāo
  1. a move in chess (Taiwan pr. zhuó)
  2. trick; tactic
  3. (dialect) okay; all right
  4. (dialect) to put in; to add
=9 zháo
  1. to touch
  2. to come in contact with
  3. to feel
  4. to be affected by
  5. to catch fire
  6. to burn
  7. (coll.) to fall asleep
  8. (after a verb) hitting the mark
  9. succeeding in
=9 zhe aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
=9 zhuó
  1. to wear (clothes)
  2. to contact
  3. to use
  4. to apply
=9 zhù
  1. to make known
  2. to show
  3. to prove
  4. to write
  5. book
  6. outstanding
=10 surname Na
=10 Nuó surname Nuo
=10 variant of
=10
  1. (specifier) that; the; those (colloquial pr. nèi)
  2. (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations)
  3. then (in that case)
=10 nuó
  1. (archaic) many
  2. beautiful
  3. how
  4. old variant of nuó
11 běn
  1. (bound form) root; stem
  2. (bound form) origin; source
  3. (bound form) one's own; this
  4. (bound form) this; the current (year etc)
  5. (bound form) original
  6. (bound form) inherent
  7. originally; initially
  8. capital; principal
  9. classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
=12 fàn variant of fàn
=12 fàn variant of fàn
=12 fàn
  1. (bound form) general
  2. non-specific
  3. extensive
  4. pan-
  5. to flood
  6. (literary) to float about
  7. to be suffused with (a color, emotion, odor etc)
=13 Huáng surname Huang or Hwang
=13 huáng
  1. yellow
  2. pornographic
  3. to fall through
=14 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
=14 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=14 really and truly
=14 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
15 相簿 xiàng photo album