南非近 70 萬名高中生一直熱切期盼著本週公布他們的畢業考試成績,大學會根據這些成績來決定學生可以進入哪個專業學習。

South Africa’s nearly 700,000 high-schoolers had been eagerly awaiting this week’s announcement of their matriculation exam grades—scores used by universities to determine which program of study a student is admitted to.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 南非 Nánfēi
  1. South Africa
  2. Southern Africa
2 jìn
  1. near
  2. close to
  3. approximately
3 萬名 wànmíng all names
4 高中生 gāozhōngshēng senior high school student
5 一直 zhí
  1. straight (in a straight line)
  2. continuously; always; all the way through
6 熱切 qiè fervent
7 期盼 pàn to expect; to await
=8 zhāo
  1. a move in chess (Taiwan pr. zhuó)
  2. trick; tactic
  3. (dialect) okay; all right
  4. (dialect) to put in; to add
=8 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
=8 zhe aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
=8 zhuó
  1. to wear (clothes)
  2. to contact
  3. to use
  4. to apply
=8 zhù
  1. to make known
  2. to show
  3. to prove
  4. to write
  5. book
  6. outstanding
9 本週 běnzhōu this week
=10 公布 gōng variant of 公布 gōng
=10 公布 gōng to announce; to make public; to publish
11 他們 men they; them
=12 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
=12 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=12 really and truly
=12 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
13 畢業
  1. graduation
  2. to graduate
  3. to finish school
14 考試 kǎoshì
  1. to take an exam
  2. exam

classifier:

15 成績 chéng
  1. achievement
  2. performance records
  3. grades

classifiers: ,

=16 大學 xué the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四书 shū in Confucianism
=16 大學 xué
  1. university
  2. college

classifier:

=17 huì
  1. can; to have the skill; to know how to
  2. to be likely to; to be sure to
  3. to meet; to get together
  4. meeting; gathering
  5. (suffix) union; group; association
  6. (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. huǐ)
=17 kuài (bound form) to reckon accounts
=17 kuò only used in 會撮会撮
18 根據 gēn
  1. according to
  2. based on
  3. basis
  4. foundation

classifier:

19 這些 zhèxiē these
20 成績 chéng
  1. achievement
  2. performance records
  3. grades

classifiers: ,

21 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 回来 huílai)
  4. ever since (as in 自古以来 lái)
  5. for the past (amount of time)
  6. (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 来世 láishì)
  7. (between two verbs) in order to
  8. (after a round number) approximately
  9. (used after to indicate possibility, as in 谈得来 tándelái, or after to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不来 chībulái)
22 決定 juédìng
  1. to decide (to do something)
  2. to resolve
  3. decision
  4. certainly

classifiers: ,

=23 學生 xuésheng
  1. student
  2. schoolchild
=23 學生 xuéshēng
  1. disciple; follower (Classifier: m)
  2. student; pupil (Classifier: m)
24 可以
  1. can
  2. may
  3. possible
  4. able to
  5. not bad
  6. pretty good
25 進入 jìn
  1. to enter
  2. to join
  3. to go into
26 哪個 ge
  1. which
  2. who
27 專業 zhuān
  1. specialty
  2. specialized field
  3. main field of study (at university)
  4. major
  5. professional

classifiers: ,

28 學習 xué
  1. to learn
  2. to study