湯姆有可能會被判無期徒刑。

Tom could face life in prison.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 湯姆 Tāngmǔ Tom (name)
2 有可能 yǒukěnéng
  1. possible
  2. probable
  3. possibly
  4. probably
  5. may
  6. might
=3 會 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)
=3 會 kuài (bound form) to reckon accounts
=3 會 kuò only used in 會撮／会撮
=4 被 bèi
  1. quilt
  2. to cover (with)
  3. (literary) to suffer (a misfortune)
  4. used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb)
  5. (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅遊 bèilu:yóu to "go on a trip")
=4 被 pī
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 披 (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
  2. alternative form of 披 (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
=4 被 bì
  1. alternative form of 彼 (bǐ, “that”)
  2. alternative form of 髲 (bì, “wig”)
=4 被 pì alternative form of 帔
5 判 pàn
  1. (bound form) to differentiate; to distinguish
  2. (bound form) clearly (different)
  3. to judge; to decide; to grade
  4. (of a judge) to sentence
6 無期徒刑 wúqītúxíng life imprisonment