他們送他們的兒子到歐洲去學習文化。

They sent their son to Europe to acquire culture.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 他們 men they; them
2 sòng
  1. to send; to deliver; to transmit
  2. to give (as a present)
  3. to see (sb) off
  4. to accompany; to go along with
3 他們 men they; them
=4 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
=4 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=4 really and truly
=4 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
=5 兒子 érzi son
=5 兒子 ér
  1. Term of self-address, used by a man when speaking to elders.
  2. baby; infant; newborn
  3. child
6 dào
  1. to reach; to arrive
  2. to leave for; to go to
  3. to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point)
  4. (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point)
  5. considerate; thoughtful; thorough
7 歐洲 Ōuzhōu Europe (abbr. for 歐羅巴洲 Ōuluó Zhōu)
8
  1. to go
  2. to go to (a place)
  3. (of a time etc) last
  4. just passed
  5. to send
  6. to remove
  7. to get rid of
  8. to reduce
  9. to be apart from in space or time
  10. to die (euphemism)
  11. to play (a part)
  12. (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
  13. (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
  14. (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
9 學習 xué
  1. to learn
  2. to study
10 文化 wénhuà
  1. culture
  2. civilization
  3. cultural

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