世界就像是一本书,走一步等于翻了一页。

The world is just like a book, and every step you take is like turning a page.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 世界 shìjiè world

classifier:

2 就像 jiùxiàng to be just like; to be similar to; as if; as though
=3 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=3 shì variant of shì
4 一本 běn
  1. (Mainland China, education) the first tier of universities
  2. (judo) ippon
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see , (běn).
  4. another version (terminology in collation)
  5. entirely based on
  6. having the same origin
  7. ippon
  8. the first tier of universities
=5 Shū abbr. for 书经 Shūjīng
=5 shū
  1. book
  2. letter
  3. document
  4. to write

classifiers: , ,

6 zǒu
  1. to walk
  2. to go
  3. to run
  4. to move (of vehicle)
  5. to visit
  6. to leave
  7. to go away
  8. to die (euph.)
  9. from
  10. through
  11. away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走 chèzǒu)
  12. to change (shape, form, meaning)
7 一步 one step; a single step
8 等于 děng
  1. to equal
  2. to be tantamount to
=9 fān
  1. to turn over
  2. to flip over
  3. to overturn
  4. to rummage through
  5. to translate
  6. to decode
  7. to double
  8. to climb over or into
  9. to cross
=9 fān variant of fān
=10 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=10 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)
=10 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=10 liào unofficial variant of liào
11
  1. one
  2. single
  3. a (article)
  4. as soon as
  5. entire; whole; all; throughout
  6. "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
  7. also pr. yāo for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
=12 xié head
=12
  1. page
  2. leaf