上海以前有许多小河浜,其中有肇家浜、洋泾浜,现在都被填了。

There used to be a lot of small creeks in old time Shanghai, which included Zhaojia Creek and Yangjing Creek, but they're all covered up nowadays.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 上海 Shànghǎi Shanghai municipality (abbr. to )
2 以前 qián
  1. before
  2. formerly
  3. previous
  4. ago
=3 yǒu
  1. to have; there is
  2. (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意 yǒu intentional)
=3 yòu
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (yòu, “again”)
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (yòu, “and; with a remainder of (when dividing an integer by ten)”)
  3. alternative form of (yòu, “again”)
  4. alternative form of (yòu, “and; with a remainder of (when dividing an integer by ten)”)
4 许多 duō
  1. many
  2. a lot of
  3. much
5 小河 xiǎo creek; stream; brook
=6 bāng
  1. stream
  2. creek
=6 bīn
  1. Japanese variant of bīn
  2. used in Japanese place names such as Yokohama 横浜 Héngbīn with phonetic value hama
7 其中 zhōng
  1. among
  2. in
  3. included among these
=8 yǒu
  1. to have; there is
  2. (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意 yǒu intentional)
=8 yòu
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (yòu, “again”)
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (yòu, “and; with a remainder of (when dividing an integer by ten)”)
  3. alternative form of (yòu, “again”)
  4. alternative form of (yòu, “and; with a remainder of (when dividing an integer by ten)”)
=9 zhào
  1. at first
  2. devise
  3. originate
=9 zhào
  1. the start
  2. the origin
=10 jiā used in 家伙 jiāhuo and 家俱 jiā
=10 jiā
  1. home
  2. family
  3. (polite) my (sister, uncle etc)
  4. classifier for families or businesses
  5. refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China
  6. noun suffix for a specialist in some activity, such as a musician or revolutionary, corresponding to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian

classifier:

=10 jie only used in 大家 (dàgū)
=11 bāng
  1. stream
  2. creek
=11 bīn
  1. Japanese variant of bīn
  2. used in Japanese place names such as Yokohama 横浜 Héngbīn with phonetic value hama
12 洋泾浜 Yángjīngbāng
  1. Yangjingbang, a former tributary of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, now filled and known as Yan'an East Road (延安東路延安东路)
  2. short for 洋涇浜英語洋泾浜英语 (Yángjīngbāng Yīngyǔ, “Chinese Pidgin English”)
13 现在 xiànzài now; at present; currently
=14 surname Du
=14 dōu
  1. all; both; entirely
  2. (used for emphasis) even
  3. already
  4. (not) at all
=14
  1. capital city
  2. metropolis
=15 bèi
  1. quilt
  2. to cover (with)
  3. (literary) to suffer (a misfortune)
  4. used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb)
  5. (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 bèilu:yóu to "go on a trip")
=15
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
  2. alternative form of (“to cover oneself; to scatter”)
=15
  1. alternative form of (bǐ, “that”)
  2. alternative form of (bì, “wig”)
=15 alternative form of
16 tián
  1. to fill or stuff
  2. (of a form etc) to fill in
=17 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=17 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)
=17 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=17 liào unofficial variant of liào