看到针管儿之前我一直都很淡定。

I was calm until I saw the syringe.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 看到 kàndào to see
2 针管 zhēnguǎn syringe
=3 儿 ér
  1. child
  2. son
=3 儿 r
  1. non-syllabic diminutive suffix
  2. retroflex final
4 之前 zhīqián
  1. before
  2. prior to
  3. ago
  4. previously
  5. beforehand
5 我 wǒ
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
6 一直 yīzhí
  1. straight (in a straight line)
  2. continuously; always; all the way through
=7 都 Dū surname Du
=7 都 dōu
  1. all; both; entirely
  2. (used for emphasis) even
  3. already
  4. (not) at all
=7 都 dū
  1. capital city
  2. metropolis
8 很 hěn
  1. very; quite
  2. (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element)
9 淡定 dàndìng
  1. calm and collected
  2. unperturbed