這名士兵在黑暗中保持戒備。

The soldier kept a sharp lookout in the darkness.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 這 zhè
  1. (pronoun) this; these
  2. (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun)
  3. (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. zhèi, esp. in Beijing)
=1 這 zhèi (coll.) this
2 名士 míngshì (old) a person of literary talent; a celebrity (esp. a distinguished literary person having no official post)
3 兵 bīng
  1. soldiers
  2. a force
  3. an army
  4. weapons
  5. arms
  6. military
  7. warlike

classifier: 個
4 在 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
=5 黑暗 hēiàn
  1. dark
  2. darkly
  3. darkness
=5 黑暗 hēi'àn
  1. (figurative) backward; unenlightened; evil; corrupt; sordid; dark
  2. (obsolete) rhinoceros horn
  3. backward; unenlightened; evil; corrupt; sordid; dark
  4. dark; unlighted
  5. rhinoceros horn
6 中保 zhōngbǎo middleman and guarantor
7 持 chí
  1. to hold
  2. to grasp
  3. to support
  4. to maintain
  5. to persevere
  6. to manage
  7. to run (i.e. administer)
  8. to control
8 戒備 jièbèi
  1. to take precautions
  2. to guard against (emergency)