看書時不能吃東西。

You can't read while you're eating.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 看書 kànshū
  1. to read
  2. to study
=2 時 Shí surname Shi
=2 時 shí
  1. o'clock
  2. time
  3. when
  4. hour
  5. season
  6. period
3 不能 bùnéng
  1. cannot
  2. must not
  3. should not
=4 吃 chī
  1. to eat; to consume
  2. to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
  3. to eradicate; to destroy
  4. to absorb
  5. to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
=4 吃 chī variant of 吃 chī
=5 東西 dōngxī east and west
=5 東西 dōngxi
  1. thing
  2. stuff
  3. person

classifiers: 個, 件