他們讓自己閒不下來。

They kept themselves busy.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 他們 tāmen they; them
2 讓 ràng
  1. to yield
  2. to permit
  3. to let sb do sth
  4. to have sb do sth
  5. to make sb (feel sad etc)
  6. by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被 bèi)
3 自己 zìjǐ
  1. oneself
  2. one's own
=4 閒 jiān variant of 間 jiān
=4 閒 jiàn variant of 間 jiàn
=4 閒 xián
  1. idle
  2. unoccupied
  3. leisure
5 不下 bùxià to be not less than (a certain quantity, amount etc)
6 來 lái
  1. to come
  2. (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)
  3. hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來 huílai)
  4. ever since (as in 自古以來 zìgǔyǐlái)
  5. for the past (amount of time)
  6. (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世 láishì)
  7. (between two verbs) in order to
  8. (after a round number) approximately
  9. (used after 得 dé to indicate possibility, as in 談得來 tándelái, or after 不 bù to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來 chībulái)