路上幾乎沒有車子, 所以我們挑了個好時間去紐約。

There was little traffic, so we made good time on our trip to New York.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 路上 shang
  1. on the road
  2. on the way; en route
=1 路上 shàng
  1. on the road
  2. on the way; en route
2 幾乎 almost; nearly; practically
3 沒有 méiyǒu
  1. haven't
  2. hasn't
  3. doesn't exist
  4. to not have
  5. to not be
=4 車子 chēzi car or other vehicle (bicycle, truck etc)
=4 車子 chē
  1. (Classical) cart driver; coachman
  2. cart driver; coachman
5 所以 suǒ
  1. therefore
  2. as a result
  3. so
  4. the reason why
6 我們 men we; us; ourselves; our
=7 tiāo
  1. to carry on a shoulder pole
  2. to choose
  3. to pick
  4. to nitpick
=7 tiǎo
  1. to raise
  2. to dig up
  3. to poke
  4. to prick
  5. to incite
  6. to stir up
=7 tāo only used in 挑達挑达 (tāotà, “walking back and forth; coming and going”)
=8 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=8 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of liǎo)
=8 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=8 liào unofficial variant of liào
=9 used in 自个儿 r
=9
  1. (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier)
  2. (bound form) individual
10 好時 Hǎoshí Hershey's (brand)
=11 jiān
  1. between
  2. among
  3. within a definite time or space
  4. room
  5. section of a room or lateral space between two pairs of pillars
  6. classifier for rooms
=11 jiàn
  1. gap
  2. to separate
  3. to thin out (seedlings)
  4. to sow discontent
=11 jiǎn
  1. (obsolete) Used in place names.
  2. (obsolete) Variant pronunciation of the classifier sense.
  3. Used in place names.
  4. Variant pronunciation of the classifier sense.
12
  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)
13 紐約 Niǔyuē New York