养大一个宝宝是一项艰难的工作。

Bringing up a baby is hard work.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 养大 yǎng to raise (a child or animal)
=2 一个 ge
  1. a; an; one
  2. the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
=2 一个
  1. Combination of the numeral (“one”) and the generic classifier : a; an; one
  2. same
3 宝宝 bǎobao darling; baby
=4 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=4 shì variant of shì
5
  1. one
  2. single
  3. a (article)
  4. as soon as
  5. entire; whole; all; throughout
  6. "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
  7. also pr. yāo for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
=6 Xiàng surname Xiang
=6 xiàng
  1. back of neck
  2. item
  3. thing
  4. term (in a mathematical formula)
  5. sum (of money)
  6. classifier for principles, items, clauses, tasks, research projects etc
7 艰难 jiānnán
  1. difficult
  2. hard
  3. challenging
=8 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
=8 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=8 really and truly
=8 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
9 工作 gōngzuò
  1. to work
  2. (of a machine) to operate
  3. job
  4. work
  5. task

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