坐公車從這裏到機場只不過是十五分鐘的路程。

It's only a fifteen minute bus ride from here to the airport.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 Zuò surname Zuo
=1 zuò
  1. to sit
  2. to take a seat
  3. to take (a bus, airplane etc)
  4. to bear fruit
  5. variant of zuò
2 公車 gōngchē
  1. bus
  2. abbr. for 公共汽车 gōnggòngchē
  3. car belonging to an organization and used by its members (government car, police car, company car etc)
  4. abbr. for 公务用车 gōngyòngchē
=3 Cóng surname Cong
=3 cóng
  1. from; through; via
  2. (bound form) to follow
  3. (bound form) to obey
  4. (bound form) to engage in (an activity)
  5. (used before a negative) ever
  6. (bound form) (Taiwan pr. zòng) retainer; attendant
  7. (bound form) (Taiwan pr. zòng) assistant; auxiliary; subordinate
  8. (bound form) (Taiwan pr. zòng) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor
4 這裏 zhè variant of 这里 zhè
5 dào
  1. to reach; to arrive
  2. to leave for; to go to
  3. to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point)
  4. (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point)
  5. considerate; thoughtful; thorough
6 機場 chǎng
  1. airport; airfield
  2. (slang) service provider for Shadowsocks or similar software for circumventing Internet censorship

classifiers: ,

7 只不過 zhǐbuguò
  1. only; merely; nothing but; no more than
  2. it's just that ...
=8 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)
=8 shì variant of shì
9 十五 shí
  1. fifteen
  2. 15
10 分鐘 fēnzhōng minute
=11 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 跑堂儿的 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
=11 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=11 really and truly
=11 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
12 路程 chéng
  1. route
  2. path traveled
  3. distance traveled
  4. course (of development)