瑪麗正坐在辦公桌旁。

Mary is sitting at the desk.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 瑪麗 Mǎlì
  1. Mary or Marie (name)
  2. Mali
2 正坐 zhèngzuò
  1. (literary) to sit upright; to sit ramrod straight
  2. to sit upright; to sit ramrod straight
3 在 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
4 辦公桌 bàngōngzhuō office desk
=5 旁 páng
  1. one side
  2. other
  3. different
  4. lateral component of a Chinese character (such as 刂 dāo, 亻 rén etc)
=5 旁 bàng
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 傍 (“to be near to; to approach; to depend on; to rely on”)
  2. alternative form of 傍 (“to be near to; to approach; to depend on; to rely on”)
=5 旁 péng only used in 旁勃
=5 旁 bēng only used in 旁旁 (bēngbēng)