文章的发表被预定在教授生日那天。

Publication of the article was timed to coincide with the professor's birthday.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 文章 wénzhāng
  1. article
  2. essay
  3. literary works
  4. writings
  5. hidden meaning

classifiers: , ,

=2 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
=2 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=2 really and truly
=2 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
3 发表 biǎo
  1. to issue
  2. to publish
=4 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
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
  2. alternative form of (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
=4
  1. alternative form of (bǐ, “that”)
  2. alternative form of (bì, “wig”)
=4 alternative form of
5 预定 dìng to schedule in advance
6 在教 zàijiào to be a believer (in a religion, esp. Islam)
7 shòu
  1. (bound form) to confer; to give
  2. (bound form) to teach; to instruct
  3. (literary) to appoint
8 生日 shēng birthday

classifier:

9 那天 tiān
  1. that day
  2. the other day