蜗牛把触角缩了回去。

The snail drew in its feelers.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 蜗牛 wōniú
  1. snail
  2. Taiwan pr. guāniú
=2 把 bǎ
  1. to hold; to grasp
  2. to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate
  3. handlebar
  4. classifier: handful, bundle, bunch
  5. classifier for things with handles
  6. (used to put the object before the verb: 把 bǎ + {noun} + {verb})
=2 把 bà handle
=2 把 pá
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 爬 (pá, “to scratch”)
  2. a surname
  3. alternative form of 爬 (pá, “to scratch”)
3 触角 chùjiǎo
  1. antenna
  2. feeler
4 缩 suō
  1. to withdraw
  2. to pull back
  3. to contract
  4. to shrink
  5. to reduce
  6. abbreviation
  7. also pr. sù
=5 了 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=5 了 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with 得 dé or 不 bù after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as 无 wú or 不 bù) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of 了 liǎo)
=5 了 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=5 了 liào unofficial variant of 瞭 liào
=6 回去 huíqu
  1. to return
  2. to go back
=6 回去 huíqù
  1. (Taiwan, euphemistic) to die; to go home
  2. to die; to go home
  3. to go back (used after a verb to indicate direction away from speaker)
  4. to return; to go back; to go; to leave