有时我会在一瞬间忽然迷失说话的脉络,像是忽然刮来一阵狂风,将正在演奏的乐谱吹得无影无踪。

Sometimes I will lose the context of my speech in an instant, as if a sudden gust of wind blows away the music score being played without leaving a trace.

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Sentence Composition

1 有时 yǒushí
  1. sometimes
  2. now and then
2
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
=3 huì
  1. can; to have the skill; to know how to
  2. to be likely to; to be sure to
  3. to meet; to get together
  4. meeting; gathering
  5. (suffix) union; group; association
  6. (bound form) a moment (Taiwan pr. huǐ)
=3 kuài (bound form) to reckon accounts
4 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 一瞬间 shùnjiān split second
6 忽然 rán suddenly; all of a sudden
7 迷失 shī
  1. to lose (one's bearings)
  2. to get lost
8 说话 shuōhuà
  1. to speak
  2. to say
  3. to talk
  4. to gossip
  5. to tell stories
  6. talk
  7. word
=9 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
=9 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=9 really and truly
=9 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
10 脉络 màiluò
  1. arteries and veins
  2. network of blood vessels
  3. vascular system (of a plant or animal)
  4. (fig.) fabric (i.e. underlying structure, as in "social fabric")
  5. overall context
11 像是 xiàngshì to seem as if; to appear
12 忽然 rán suddenly; all of a sudden
=13 guā
  1. to scrape
  2. to blow
  3. to shave
  4. to plunder
  5. to extort
=13 guā to blow (of the wind)
14 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 回來 huílai)
  4. ever since (as in 自古以來 lái)
  5. for the past (amount of time)
  6. (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世 láishì)
  7. (between two verbs) in order to
  8. (after a round number) approximately
  9. (used after to indicate possibility, as in 談得來 tándelái, or after to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來 chībulái)
15 一阵 zhèn
  1. a burst
  2. a fit
  3. a peal
  4. a spell (period of time)
16 狂风 kuángfēng
  1. gale
  2. squall
  3. whole gale (meteorology)
=17 jiāng
  1. will
  2. shall
  3. to use
  4. to take
  5. to checkmate
  6. just a short while ago
  7. (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as )
=17 jiàng
  1. (bound form) a general
  2. (literary) to command; to lead
  3. (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
=17 qiāng
  1. to desire
  2. to invite
  3. to request
18 正在 zhèngzài to be in the process of (doing sth); to be currently ...-ing
19 演奏 yǎnzòu to perform on a musical instrument
=20 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
=20 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=20 really and truly
=20 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
21 乐谱 yuè
  1. a musical score
  2. sheet music
=22 chuī
  1. to blow
  2. to play a wind instrument
  3. to blast
  4. to puff
  5. to boast
  6. to brag
  7. to end in failure
  8. to fall through
=22 chuì
  1. (literary) wind
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) wind instruments; music performed with wind instruments
  3. wind
  4. wind instruments; music performed with wind instruments
23 得无 (literary) isn't it that...?
24 yǐng
  1. picture
  2. image
  3. film
  4. movie
  5. photograph
  6. reflection
  7. shadow
  8. trace
25 无踪 zōng (to vanish) without a trace