听说要来一个转校生之后,全班都乱哄哄地活跃起来。

Hearing that a transfer student was coming, the class buzzed with excitement.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 听说 tīngshuō
  1. to hear (sth said)
  2. one hears (that)
  3. hearsay
  4. listening and speaking
=2 yāo (bound form) to demand; to coerce
=2 yào
  1. to want; to need; to ask for
  2. will; shall; about to
  3. need to; should
  4. if (same as 要是 yàoshi)
  5. (bound form) important
=2 yǎo
  1. (archaic) alternative form of (yǎo)
  2. alternative form of (yǎo)
  3. used in 要褭要袅
3 lái
  1. to come
  2. (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)
  3. hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回来 huílai)
  4. ever since (as in 自古以来 lái)
  5. for the past (amount of time)
  6. (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 来世 láishì)
  7. (between two verbs) in order to
  8. (after a round number) approximately
  9. (used after to indicate possibility, as in 谈得来 tándelái, or after to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不来 chībulái)
=4 一个 ge
  1. a; an; one
  2. the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
=4 一个
  1. Combination of the numeral (“one”) and the generic classifier : a; an; one
  2. same
5 转校 zhuǎnxiào to transfer (school)
6 shēng
  1. to be born
  2. to give birth
  3. life
  4. to grow
  5. raw
  6. uncooked
  7. student
7 之后 zhīhòu
  1. after; behind
  2. (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then
8 全班 quánbān the whole class
=9 surname Du
=9 dōu
  1. all; both; entirely
  2. (used for emphasis) even
  3. already
  4. (not) at all
=9
  1. capital city
  2. metropolis
10 乱哄哄 luànhōnghōng
  1. noisy and in disarray
  2. in an uproar
=11 de
  1. -ly
  2. structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
=11
  1. earth
  2. ground
  3. field
  4. place
  5. land

classifier:

12 活跃 huóyuè
  1. active
  2. lively
  3. excited
  4. to enliven
  5. to brighten up
=13 起来 lai
  1. to stand up; to get up
  2. also pr. lái
=13 起来 qilai
  1. (after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state
  2. indicating an upward movement (e.g. after zhàn)
  3. indicating completion
  4. (after a perception verb, e.g. kàn) expressing preliminary judgment
  5. also pr. lai
=13 起来 lái
  1. placed after a verb to form a copular verb, expressing evaluation based on initial perception
  2. placed after a verb to indicate that the action has started
  3. to get up; to get out of bed
  4. to rise up; to get up