苏州河是上海的母亲河，弯弯曲曲横跨流过市中心。 - Zhictionary

Zhictionary

苏州河是上海的母亲河，弯弯曲曲横跨流过市中心。

River Suzhou is Shanghai's "mother river"; twisting and turning, it stretches across and flows through the city center.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

Suzhou Creek (river in Shanghai)

to be (followed by substantives only)
correct; right; true
(respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
(adverb for emphatic assertion)

variant of 是 shì

Shanghai municipality (abbr. to 滬 Hù)

of; ~'s (possessive particle)
(used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
(used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
(used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 pígéde "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")
also pr. dì or di in poetry and songs

a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 dīshì)

really and truly

(bound form) bull's-eye; target

lifeline river; river regarded as the cradle of a civilization

curved
meandering
zigzagging

to span
to stretch across
to travel across

to flow
to disseminate
to circulate or spread
to move or drift
to degenerate
to banish or send into exile
stream of water or sth resembling one
class, rate or grade

to cross
to go over
to pass (time)
to celebrate (a holiday)
to live
to get along
excessively
too-

(experienced action marker)

city center
downtown