瑪麗的背不好, 她很難把東西舉起來。

Mary has a bad back. It's hard for her to lift things.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 瑪麗
  1. Mary or Marie (name)
  2. Mali
=2 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
=2 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=2 really and truly
=2 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=3 bēi variant of bēi
=3 bēi
  1. to be burdened
  2. to carry on the back or shoulder
=3 bèi
  1. the back of a body or object
  2. to turn one's back
  3. to hide something from
  4. to learn by heart
  5. to recite from memory
  6. (slang) unlucky
  7. hard of hearing
=4 不好 hǎo no good
=4 不好 hào to dislike; to be uninterested in
5 she
6 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
=7 nán
  1. difficult (to...)
  2. problem
  3. difficulty
  4. difficult
  5. not good
=7 nàn
  1. disaster
  2. distress
  3. to scold
=8
  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: + {noun} + {verb})
=8 handle
=8
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (pá, “to scratch”)
  2. a surname
  3. alternative form of (pá, “to scratch”)
=9 東西 dōng east and west
=9 東西 dōngxi
  1. thing
  2. stuff
  3. person

classifiers: ,

10 舉起
  1. to heave
  2. to lift
  3. to raise up
  4. to uphold
11 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 lái)
  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 to indicate possibility, as in 談得來 tándelái, or after to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來 chībulái)