夜晚大雪纷飞。第二天早上,祖母和孙子一起坐着雪橇上街。在放学后的下午,公园里的雪仗开始了。

Plenty of snow had fallen overnight. The following morning, grandmothers and their grandchildren on sledges appeared in the streets, and in the afternoon, after school, snowball fights broke out in the park.

Plenty of snow had fallen overnight. In the streets the next morning, grandmothers appeared with their grandchildren on sledges, and in the park that afternoon, after school, snowball fights broke out.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 夜晚 wǎn night

classifier:

=2 大雪 xuě Daxue or Great Snow, 21st of the 24 solar terms 二十四节气 7th-21st December
=2 大雪 xuě heavy snow
3 纷飞 fēnfēi
  1. to swirl in the air (of thickly falling snowflakes, flower petals etc)
  2. to flutter about
=4 第二天 èrtiān
  1. next day
  2. the morrow
=4 第二天 dì'èrtiān the next day
5 早上 zǎoshang early morning

classifier:

6 祖母 father's mother; paternal grandmother
=7 old variant of
=7 surname He
=7
  1. (joining two nouns) and; together with; with (Taiwan pr. hàn)
  2. (math.) sum
  3. to make peace
  4. (sports) to draw; to tie
  5. (bound form) harmonious
  6. (bound form) Japan; Japanese
=7
  1. to compose a poem in reply (to sb's poem) using the same rhyme sequence
  2. to join in the singing
  3. to chime in with others
=7 to complete a set in mahjong or playing cards
=7 huó
  1. to combine a powdery substance (flour, plaster etc) with water
  2. Taiwan pr. huò
=7 huò
  1. to mix (ingredients) together
  2. to blend
  3. classifier for rinses of clothes
  4. classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs
=7 (literary) harmonious (variant of )
=7 huo
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) warm
  2. warm
=8 孙子 Sūn Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孙武 Sūn (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孙子兵法 Sūn Bīng, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武经七书 jīng shū
=8 孙子 sūnzi
  1. grandson
  2. son's son
9 一起
  1. (in) the same place
  2. together; in company (with)
  3. altogether; in total
  4. an instance of; a case of (murder, accident, dispute etc)
=10 Zuò surname Zuo
=10 zuò
  1. to sit
  2. to take a seat
  3. to take (a bus, airplane etc)
  4. to bear fruit
  5. variant of zuò
=11 zhāo
  1. a move in chess (Taiwan pr. zhuó)
  2. trick; tactic
  3. (dialect) okay; all right
  4. (dialect) to put in; to add
=11 zháo
  1. to touch
  2. to come in contact with
  3. to feel
  4. to be affected by
  5. to catch fire
  6. to burn
  7. (coll.) to fall asleep
  8. (after a verb) hitting the mark
  9. succeeding in
=11 zhe aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
=11 zhuó
  1. to wear (clothes)
  2. to contact
  3. to use
  4. to apply
12 雪橇 xuěqiāo
  1. sled
  2. sledge
  3. sleigh
  4. bobsled
=13 上街 shàngjiē
  1. to go onto the streets
  2. to go shopping
=13 上街 Shàngjiē
  1. (~) a district in Zhengzhou
  2. a district in Zhengzhou
14 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)
15 放学 fàngxué to dismiss students at the end of the school day
=16 Hòu surname Hou
=16 hòu
  1. empress
  2. queen
  3. (archaic) monarch
  4. ruler
=16 hòu
  1. back
  2. behind
  3. rear
  4. afterwards
  5. after
  6. later
  7. post-
=17 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 跑堂儿的 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
=17 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=17 really and truly
=17 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
18 下午 xià
  1. afternoon
  2. p.m.

classifier:

19 公园 gōngyuán park (for public recreation)

classifier:

=20 variant of
=20
  1. lining
  2. interior
  3. inside
  4. internal
  5. also written
=20 Li (surname)
=20
  1. li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m
  2. neighborhood
  3. ancient administrative unit of 25 families
  4. (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township zhèn and neighborhood lín levels
=21 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 跑堂儿的 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
=21 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=21 really and truly
=21 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
22 雪仗 xuězhàng
  1. snow fight
  2. snowball fight
23 开始 kāishǐ
  1. to begin
  2. beginning
  3. to start
  4. initial

classifier:

=24 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=24 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of liǎo)
=24 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=24 liào unofficial variant of liào