人們或可選擇何時開始戀愛,但它的終結卻不由人。

People can begin to love when they choose, but they have no choice when it comes to ending love.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 人們 rénmen people
=2 huò
  1. maybe
  2. perhaps
  3. might
  4. possibly
  5. or
=2
  1. Original form of (guó, “country”).
  2. Original form of (yù, “range; territory”).
3 可選 xuǎn
  1. available
  2. optional
4
  1. to select
  2. to choose
  3. to pick over
  4. to pick out
  5. to differentiate
  6. to eliminate
  7. also pr. zhái
5 何時 shí when
6 開始 kāishǐ
  1. to begin
  2. beginning
  3. to start
  4. initial

classifier:

=7 戀愛 liànài
  1. (romantic) love
  2. in love
  3. to have an affair

classifiers: ,

=7 戀愛 liàn'ài
  1. romantic love; love affair
  2. to love; to be in love; to date
8 dàn
  1. but; yet; however; still
  2. merely; only; just
=9 it
=9 it (pronoun for an animal)
=9 tuō
  1. alternative form of / (tuó)
  2. used in 它它藉藉它它借借
=9 only used in 它它
=10 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
=10 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=10 really and truly
=10 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
11 終結 zhōngjié
  1. end; conclusion
  2. to come to an end; to terminate (sth)
12 què
  1. but
  2. yet
  3. however
  4. while
  5. to go back
  6. to decline
  7. to retreat
  8. nevertheless
  9. even though
13 不由 yóu can't help (doing sth)
14 rén person; people

classifiers: ,