剛開始我還覺得他們解僱我是對的。

At first, I felt they were right to have fired me.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 gāng
  1. hard
  2. firm
  3. strong
  4. just
  5. barely
  6. exactly
2 開始 kāishǐ
  1. to begin
  2. beginning
  3. to start
  4. initial

classifier:

3
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
=4 Huán surname Huan
=4 hái
  1. still
  2. still in progress
  3. still more
  4. yet
  5. even more
  6. in addition
  7. fairly
  8. passably (good)
  9. as early as
  10. even
  11. also
  12. else
=4 huán
  1. to pay back
  2. to return
=4 xuán
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (“to rotate; to turn around”)
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) immediately
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) nimble; agile
  4. alternative form of (“to rotate; to turn around”)
  5. immediately
  6. nimble; agile
5 覺得 juéde
  1. to think that ...; to feel that ...
  2. to feel (uncomfortable etc)
6 他們 men they; them
7 解僱 jiě
  1. to fire
  2. to sack
  3. to dismiss
  4. to terminate employment
8
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
=9 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)
=9 shì variant of shì
10 duì
  1. right; correct
  2. towards; at; for
  3. concerning; regarding
  4. to treat (sb a certain way)
  5. to face
  6. (bound form) opposite; facing; matching
  7. to match together; to adjust
  8. to fit; to suit
  9. to answer; to reply
  10. to add; to pour in (a fluid)
  11. to check; to compare
  12. classifier: couple; pair
=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