食物在吞嚥前要經過咀嚼。

Food should be chewed before being swallowed.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 食物 shíwù food
2 在 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)
3 吞嚥 tūnyàn
  1. to swallow
  2. to gulp
4 前 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. 前293年)
  10. former
  11. formerly
=5 要 yāo (bound form) to demand; to coerce
=5 要 yào
  1. to want; to need; to ask for
  2. will; shall; about to
  3. need to; should
  4. if (same as 要是 yàoshi)
  5. (bound form) important
=5 要 yǎo
  1. (archaic) alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  2. alternative form of 偠 (yǎo)
  3. used in 要褭／要袅
6 經過 jīngguò
  1. to pass
  2. to go through
  3. process
  4. course

classifier: 個
7 咀嚼 jǔjué
  1. to chew
  2. to think over